Perfect Quotes - Page 28

• Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

  Virginia Woolf

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.10, Broadview Press

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• Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mma, Use, Littles

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• Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

  Susan Sontag

  Pain, Giving, Intellectual

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.8, Macmillan

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• It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daughter, even though my lacks are in areas different from her complaints. Haven't I learned yet that the desire to be perfect is always disastrous and, at the least, loses me in the mire of false guilt?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Daughter, Thinking, People

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.84, Open Road Media

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• Everything is perfect. Everything is fine. The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind. Of course there may be courtesies And closures and laws to abide, But the zeal with which you play Relies on where YOU draw the line

  Jason Mraz

  Law, Play, Mind

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• In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Daughter, Dark

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• It had been a perfect nap - the sort a man runs into now and again by chance.

  Charles Finch

  Running, Men, Naps

  Charles Finch (2007). “A Beautiful Blue Death”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be defined? In this way, can a reflection be altered?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Reflection, Soul, Might

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Identical”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. Looks like suicide. All the weeds say, looka there, it suicide!

  Harry Crews

  Suicide, Running, Weed

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• You were right. My whole crew. Gone. Arrested. Perfect. Shoot me now and save me the expense of a bullet later. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Gone, Bullets, Crew

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.528, Macmillan

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• The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

  Thomas Hardy

  Heart, Hands, Idlers

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• Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

  Voltaire

  Character, Thinking, Ideas

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.67, Penguin

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• I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.

  Edward Abbey

  Sea, Sky, Simplicity

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.147, Macmillan

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• Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Different, Would Be

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.865, Simon and Schuster

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• Every relationship is messed up. What makes it really perfect is if you still want to be there when things suck.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Want, Messed Up, Stills

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• Heart lesson #3: post-heartbreak survival. The heart is resilient, I mean literally. When a body is burned, the heart is the last organ to oxidize. While the rest of the body can catch flame like a polyester sheet on campfire, it takes hours to burn the heart to ash. My dear sister, a near-perfect organ! Solid, inflammable.

  Ibi Kaslik

  Heart, Mean, Flames

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• Just the perfect touch of rebellion," says Haymitch "Very nice." Rebellion?

  Suzanne Collins

  Nice, Rebellion, Haymitch

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.74, Scholastic Inc.

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• You never know the biggest day of your life is your biggest day, not until it’s happening. You don’t recognize the biggest day of your life, not until you’re right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone. The day you get your heart broken. The day you meet your soul mate. The day you realize there’s not enough time because you wanna live forever. Those are the biggest days. The perfect days.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Heart, Perfect Days, Broken

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• The Challenge is to pry Bertie loose from Dain and his circle of oafish dengenerates,” Jessica said severely. “It would be far more profitable to pry Dain loose for yourself,” said her grandmother. “He is very wealthy, his lineage is excellent, he is young, strong, and healthy, and you feel a powerful attraction.” “He isn’t husband material.” “What I have described is perfect husband material.” said her grandmother. “I don’t want a husband.” “Jessica, no woman does who can regard men objectively. And you have always been magnificently objective.

  Loretta Chase

  Strong, Powerful, Husband

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• You are not a perfect woman.You have an evil temper, you’re as blind as a mole, you’re a deplorable poet, and frankly, your French accent could use some work.” Supporting himself on his elbows, Leo took her face in his hands. “But when I put those things together with the rest of you, it makes you into the most perfectly imperfect woman I’ve ever known.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hands, Evil, Together

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• But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

  Jim Butcher

  Hero, Sacrifice, Attendance

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.167, Penguin

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• Can't you home school me?" Nate pleaded. "You would never do any work." (Nate's mom) "Sounds perfect!

  Brandon Mull

  Mom, Home, School

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• You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.

  Jodi Picoult

  Next, Sometimes, Life Is

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

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• At last Niko dropped his hands, and opened his eyes. His perfect tree illusion solidified and settled. "Very nice," said Briar with approval. "Couldn't have done better myself" "Couldn't do it at all yourself," muttered Tris. Briar ignored her. "But you'd never find a cork oak in these parts. Too cold." Niko looked down his nose at the boy. "I beg your pardon?" Briar shrugged. "Just thought I'd mention it." Niko glared.

  Tamora Pierce

  Nice, Eye, Boys

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• Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Way, Moments, Anita Blake

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