Perfect Quotes

Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.

Paul Theroux
- Country
- Small
- Poverty
In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.

Gabrielle Carteris
- World
- American
- True

Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- World
- Thinking
- Free
It was his peculiar doctrine that a man has a perfect right to interfere by force with the slaveholder, in order to rescue the slave. I agree with him. They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.

Henry David Thoreau
- Death
- Perfect
- Slavery
Please stop assuming that longevity and perfect health is always the correct option. No. Sometimes fun costs ya. It just does, you know? And that's OK, you're willing to make that purchase. Sammy Davis, Jr. was 64 when he died. Give me 64 Sammy-years, I'll be happy.

Bill Maher
- Happy
- Fun
- Stop
Like the rest of the planet, I'm absolutely dying to see Baz Luhrmann's 'The Great Gatsby' and am thrilled that Leonardo DiCaprio was cast in it - he's perfect.

Emily Giffin
- Great
- Rest
- Dying
Axiom: Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

E. M. Forster
- Character
- Perfect
A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

Edward Steichen