Abraham ibn Ezra Quotes

How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions.

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• Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Important
  • Why
  • She

• Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • High
  • Perfect
  • Never

• I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Kids
  • Perfect
  • Day

• My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Perfect
  • Thought
  • Better

• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Art
  • Death

• In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Perfect
  • Heaven
  • Woman

• Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Refuge

• In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Imagination

• I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Drive

• For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Stories

• Tom Ford does everything perfect.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Perfect
  • Everything
  • Tom

• I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • School
  • Perfect
  • Day

• The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal – they don't forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Team
  • Understand
  • Expect

• If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.

  

  Gary Snyder
  • May
  • Perfect
  • Rap

• Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Together
  • Society
  • Interesting

• I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.

  

  Ned Beatty
  • Good
  • Perfect

• I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all.

  

  Columba Bush
  • Children
  • Father
  • Perfect

• I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • Time
  • Perfect

• Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Food
  • Perfect
  • Artist

• An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.

  

  Daymond John
  • Money
  • Knowledge
  • Period

• We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Sweet
  • Patience

• Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Hope

• How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions.

  

  Abraham ibn Ezra
  • Perfect
  • Expect
  • Contradictions