Imperfect Quotes - Page 26

• Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic.

  Sarah Dessen

  Broken, Truth About Forever, Things Are Meant To Be

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.69, Penguin

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• Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wine, Afterlife, Order

  Evelyn Waugh (1942). “Put out more flags”

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• What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?' 'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Believe, Passion, Ideas

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• It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

  Thomas Hardy

  Perfect, Humanity, Would Be

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.182, Thomas Hardy

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• Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world’s stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp – and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it’s immensity cannot be embodied in one tidewashed pebble.

  Dean Koontz

  Reality, Self, Sea

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• To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Perfect, Littles, Helping

  "Imperfection". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple.

  Michael Grant

  Cute, Couple, Cutting

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• If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Money, People, Levels

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.348, Princeton University Press

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• Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.

  Jenny Lawson

  Running, Absurdity Of Life, Joy

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.233, Pan Macmillan

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• A dog — a dog teaches us so much about love. Wordless, imperfect love; love that is constant, love that is simple goodness, love that forgives not only bad singing and embarrassments, but misunderstandings and harsh words. Love that sits and stays and stays and stays, until it finally becomes its own forever. Love, stronger than death. A dog is a four-legged reminder that love comes and time passes and then your heart breaks.

  Deb Caletti

  Dog, Heart, Simple

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• Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Ordinary

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• She couldn't "heal" him. No woman could. Events that far in the past just couldn't be undone. But perhaps he didn't need a cure, but . . . a lens. Someone who accepted him for the imperfect person he was, and then helped him to see the world clear. Like spectacles did for her.

  Tessa Dare

  Past, Imperfect Person, Events

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• Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!

  Nnedi Okorafor

  Flawed, Creatures

  Nnedi Okorafor (2011). “Who Fears Death”, p.119, Penguin

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• It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.

  Odilon Redon

  Regret, Next, Born

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• Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experience? Of course the will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Children, Lying

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• I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

  Rip Torn

  Two, Car, Causes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

  Wietse Venema

  Mistake, Writing, Causes

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• No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

  John Ruskin

  Design, Noble, Architecture

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.13

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• Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.

  J. K. Rowling

  Ignorance, Understanding, Dangerous

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• To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Distance, Home

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human endeavor, the amount of missed opportunities, so to speak, is therefore bound to be greater.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Opportunity, Numbers

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.502, Princeton University Press

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• A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual, Venus,--whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons,--breathes, the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Spiritual, Children, Book

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• Well, Americans expect our president to be human beings, and as imperfect as all of us are. They expect us to make mistakes and all that. But one thing the American public likes is, if you make a mistake, you do that, you cross that line that they expect you to behave under, then you apologize or then you correct that behavior and said you have learned, you are going to do better, you are going to achieve better, and you are going to serve a higher purpose than that.

  Matthew Dowd

  Mistake, President, Purpose

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

  Max Born

  Order, Perfect, Needs

  Max Born (2013). “Physics in My Generation”, p.63, Springer

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• Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God.

  Annie Besant

  Mirrors, Evil, Imperfection

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