Imperfect Quotes - Page 21

• He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from his home. He'd never been able to trust. He could never give that last small piece - all that was left of his humanity - into someone else's keeping. And now there was Rikki. She let him be whatever he had to be to survive. She didn't ask anything of him. There was no hidden motive. No agenda. Just acceptance. She was different - imperfect, or so she thought - and she knew what it was like to fight to carve out a space for herself. She was willing for him to do thar.

  Christine Feehan

  Children, Taken, Home

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Water Bound”, p.152, Penguin

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• I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Allies, Like Me

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.66, Faber & Faber

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• My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.

  John Piper

  Echoes, Feelings, Perception

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• To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

  Louise Erdrich

  Perfection, Tasks, Splendor

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• To be anorexic...she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She could understand that now for, maybe underneath that desquamated self you would locate a new version.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Self, Mosaics, Pieces

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• You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.

  Jasper Fforde

  Would Be, World, Temper

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• He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies ... He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. Deliberately he had destroyed any illusions she might have had about him, exposing his mysterious past for the ugly horror that it was. His purpose had been to drive her away. But instead she felt closer to him, as if the truth had bonded them in a new intimacy.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Past, Knights, Might

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• Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

  Haruki Murakami

  Perfect, World, Pointless Things

  "Sputnik Sweetheart". Book by Haruki Murakami, www.theguardian.com. April 2001.

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• It's made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it's a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things are somewhat flawed.

  Hoda Kotb

  Home, Cities, Realizing

  Hoda Kotb (2011). “Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Perfect, Church, Sin

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• Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect words that are somehow made imperfect when used to describe her and all that should remain unsaid about her- it is all unsupported by reason. I know that. But that enigmatic calm that attaches itself to people in the presence of reason- it's something from which I haven't been able to take comfort, not reliably, not since her.

  Elliot Perlman

  People, Perfect, Comfort

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• Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tense, Existence, Humans

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• Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

  Karen Armstrong

  Capacity, Messy, Involvement

  Karen Armstrong (2010). “Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Life In and Out of the Convent”, p.382, Vintage Canada

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• To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Communication, Writing, Perfect

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.

  Richard Rohr

  Happy Life, Imperfect Things, Unhappy

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• Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Delight, Earth, Occasions

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.13, Penguin

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• Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Mean, Perfect, Doe

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• All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.

  Philip Bobbitt

  Taken, Men, Decision

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• No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

  Tom Stoppard

  Imperfect Things, Matter, Free Press

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

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• Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. To love somebody isn`t just a strong feeling. It is a decision, a judgment, and a promise.

  Paulo Coelho

  Strong, Commitment, Unconditional Love

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• A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.

  Dave Willis

  Anniversary, Giving Up, Two

  FaceBook post by Dave Willis from Mar 13, 2017

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• If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.

  T. D. Jakes

  People, Our Family, Ifs

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• The effort of building an ideal society always leads to violence, often to very extensive violence. Because, whether we like it or not, it is not possible to create an ideal society with imperfect people. And this, unfortunately, we are. So the main purpose for Nazism as well as for Communism was to create a 'new person'. In order to make room for it, the world needed to be rid of its non-perfect models.

  Mart Laar

  Order, People, Perfect

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• People aren't meant to be perfect. We're all imperfect people looking for perfect moments to share with other imperfect people.

  Shaun Hutchinson

  People, Perfect, Moments

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• The process of putting intangible thoughts into an imperfect system of notation - which is difficult enough, depending on your ideas - acquaints you with how best to express your ideas so that it is as clear as possible to the performer.

  Marc-Andre Hamelin

  Ideas, Enough, Process

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. November 8, 2013.

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