Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.
We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
The best way of dealing with the press, customers, and critics is to come clean when things go wrong and admit when you make a mistake. We are humans, and no one expects us to be perfect.
It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.
I feel like today should be a perfect Meatball day... Let's just get wastey-pants!
People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed and open about it than somebody perfect and...you know... ready to explode.
Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.
Under Bayes' theorem, no theory is perfect. Rather, it is a work in progress, always subject to further refinement and testing.
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ ( , June 10, 1996)]
For my 'Perfect Chemistry' series, I did movie-style book trailers, and my fans went crazy for them.
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.
So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.
In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings.
