Perfect Quotes - Page 25

• In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

  Neal Shusterman

  Thinking, White, Differences

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They are weak, compared to what they soon will become, unless you can stop them, the world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine.

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Stupid, Fall

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• His face flushed, and I felt like cheering. "Yes," he said stiffly. "Besides de vings." "Hmm. Besides de vings." Nudge tapped one finger against her chin. "Um..." Her face brightened. "I once ate nine Snickers bars in one sitting. Without barfing. That was a record!" "Hardly a special talent," ter Borcht said witheringly. Nudge was offended. "Yeah? Let's see YOU do it." ... ... "I vill now eat nine Snickers bars," Gazzy said in a perfect, creepy imitation of ter Borcht's voice, "visout bahfing."

  James Patterson

  Cheer, Voice, Nudge Nudge

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• There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of innocence children have) is rooted in their trust of you, one that you will shortly be obliged to betray; whether it is fair or not, whether you can help it or not, you are always the ultimate guarantor or destroyer of that innocence.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Pain, Parenting

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• To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect.

  Bill Bryson

  Love You, Tired, Forever

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• We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

  Loren Eiseley

  Life Is, Appearance, Streams

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.59, Vintage

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• [Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Opposites, Two, Coins

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “Collected Works”, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

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• It might not be perfect, but the fundamental stance I adopted with regard to my home was to accept it, problems and all, because it was something I myself had chosen. If it had problems, these were almost certainly problems that had originated within me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Home, Fundamentals, Might

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1997.

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• There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.

  Mary Karr

  Zero, Heart, Space

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• It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

  Darren Shan

  Ifs And, What If, World

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• Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

  Nikolai Gogol

  Goes On, World, Sometimes

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.323, Vintage

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• Hatter!" She would have hugged him if she hadn't thought he'd be bothered by the dislay of affection. Pterry good timing." Dodge smiled. "A litte sooner and you would've been perfect.

  Frank Beddor

  Dodge, Affection, Timing

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• I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Deeds, Horror

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.137, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fall, Found You, Waiting

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Museums

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• Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.

  Jodi Picoult

  Letting Go, Mother, Children

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• The perfect is the enemy of the good.

  Voltaire

  Enemy, Excellence, Politics

  "La Bégueule". Poem by Voltaire, 1772.

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• You know where we got stuck? We were looking for faithfull, loving and perfect relationships-males who were always glad to see us." "So?" "We already have that!" "What do you mean?" "We've got dogs!

  Joan Bauer

  Dog, Mean, Males

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• Dancing may not be the perfect substitute for love, human love, but it certainly requires all the time and thought and energy that could otherwise be dedicated to love.

  Toni Bentley

  Dancing, Energy, May

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• I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!

  Charles Dickens

  New Year, School, Angel

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Growing Up, Hair

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• Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.

  Jim Butcher

  Children, Kids, Littles

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.144, Penguin Group

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• The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

  Brent Weeks

  No Friends, Target, Killers

  Brent Weeks (2011). “The Way of Shadows (download)”, Hachette Digital

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• The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?

  Grant Morrison

  War, Needs, World

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