Imperfect Quotes
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A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
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There are as many perfections as there are imperfect men. And while to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.
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Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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I think that we come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are.
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Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
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Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.
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We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate.
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We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.
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They trampled the world with their sick and twisted and crooked kind of love. The bastard didn’t think that anyone else’s love mattered at all. As if a father’s love knew everything, could see everything, could cure everything. And what would have happened if that man, Robert Lawson, had been allowed to keep his son? What would have fucking happened then? Men like him and Mando, they didn’t understand anything but their own imperfect hearts. That was their sickness—that they believed themselves to be the center of all light. That kind of light was a darkness of the land. A plague that was killing them all.
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I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.
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I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all.
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Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
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The foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.
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What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masquerading under the name of ragtime are not the genuine article... That real ragtime of the higher class is rather difficult to play is a painful truth which most pianists have discovered. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music... Joplin ragtime is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often players lost the effect entirely by playing too fast.
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I tend to really like things that are broken, I like the ones that are perfectly imperfect.
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I’m vain because I’m imperfect.
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Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.
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If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.
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If, as consumers, we can change our mindset so that we see gnarled, twisted, lumpy or otherwise imperfect produce as beautiful, we can create demand, change the system and ultimately help feed the world.
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It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
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You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.
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I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.
