Perfectly Quotes
1695 Perfectly quotes by 1227 unique authors
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Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
— Stephen King
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Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.
— Jim Butcher
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What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?
— Cassandra Clare
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So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When…
— Carol S. Dweck
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I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it…
— Steve Wozniak
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I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
— Louisa May Alcott
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I hear footsteps and Four's hands wrap around my wrists. I let him pry my hands from my eyes. He encloses one of my hands…
— Veronica Roth
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I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it is, I think.…
— John Green
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But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous.…
— John Green
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God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more…
— George Sand
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I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to…
— Lord Byron
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When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was…
— Douglas Adams
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[...] Tess and I are a good match. She understands intimately where I came from. She can cheer me up on my darkest days. It's…
— Marie Lu
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My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.
— Brandon Sanderson
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The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly…
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
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They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures
— Tawni O'Dell
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If Cassie was invalidated because she caught the disease, or because Fred suspected her of it, I can only imagine what he will do to…
— Lauren Oliver
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So instead she settled on, "Did my father put you up to this?" Hale exhaled a quick laugh and shook his head. "He hasn't returned…
— Ally Carter
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Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit.…
— David Levithan
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I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread…
— Dan Simmons
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That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca’s experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want…
— Frances Hardinge
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One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.
— Cassandra Clare
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The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth…
— E E Cummings
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