Imperfect Quotes

We are imperfect beings in a very imperfect world, and the one thing we can count on is that things will go wrong, and that each and every one of us will have problems.

I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.

Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind.

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

Let us not give up. Let us be true to our covenants. Let us never lose sight of our Advocate and Redeemer as we walk toward Him, one imperfect step after another.

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.

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.

However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

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.

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?

We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

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

Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs

But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.

I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.

[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

Imperfections don’t make something ugly.

All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

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

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.