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Not Perfect Quotes (page 5)

Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling. Anthony de Mello
Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over. Jose Saramago
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. W. Somerset Maugham
Victor Hugo quote: "Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every..."
Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection. Victor Hugo
Perfectly prepared to be an eavesdropper but unwilling to look like one, Philippa backed quickly towards the door and collided, hard, with an unseen person striding forward equally fast into the room. There was a hiss, more than echoed by herself as the breath was struck from her body. Then two cool, friendly hands held and steadied her, one on her shoulder and one on her flat waist, and a low voice said, ‘Admirable Philippa. I always enter my battlefields in reverse, too. But my own... Dorothy Dunnett
Victor Hugo quote: "Not seeing people permits one to attribute to them all..."
Not seeing people permits one to attribute to them all possible perfections. Victor Hugo
Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work. Stanley Kunitz
Victor Hugo quote: "Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in..."
Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways. Victor Hugo
Les Brown quote: "Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you..."
Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow. Les Brown
Jane Austen quote: "Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common."
Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common. Jane Austen
Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. Stanislaw Lem
Rabindranath Tagore quote: "Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles..."
Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. Rabindranath Tagore
Jane Austen quote: "Perfection should not have come quite so soon."
Perfection should not have come quite so soon. Jane Austen
David Prowse quote: "Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace..."
Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race. David Prowse
Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities. Maurice Strong

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