Imperfect Quotes

• Worry is often a symptom of imperfect information.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Worry
  • Information
  • Imperfect

• Nearly 40% of all food in this country is wasted, and there are over 49 million food-insecure people in the United States. Clearly we have an enormous opportunity if we can find a way to retrieve the imperfect food and to feed the hungry.

  

  Dana Cowin
  • People
  • Country
  • Hungry

• As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these imperfections. The only logical stopping place is totalitarianism -- unless we realize that tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Long
  • Realizing
  • Argument

• True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • True
  • Perfection
  • Imperfect

• We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Perfect
  • Government
  • Imperfect

• The biblical model is that God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels - those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still evident, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness.

  

  Christine Caine
  • Perfect
  • Emotional
  • Weakness

• The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

  

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford
  • Man
  • Earth
  • Limited

• Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Mind
  • Prayer
  • Office

• There's imperfect food out there that just needs a mouth to bite into it.

  

  Dana Cowin
  • Needs
  • Mouth
  • Imperfect

• People who choose to cut their parents out completely are super brave, but it's complicated and for me, I'd rather give the relationship a little bit of a try, however imperfect it is.

  

  Nicole J. Georges
  • Parents
  • Relationship
  • Cut

• To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

  

  Richard Whately
  • Judgment
  • Traditions
  • Corrupted

• Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the dance that makes us human.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Long
  • Beautiful
  • Giving

• The pacifist streak in German politics is a problem. But Greens and Social Democrats have to ask themselves: In an imperfect world, what do they prefer? The rise of the right or the success of the European project?

  

  Anthony Glees
  • World
  • Problem
  • Imperfect

• I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing at systems, at people, at one's self. In laughing even at one's need to laugh all the time. In seeing life as contradictory, many-sided, various, funny, tragic, and with moments of outrageous beauty. In seeing life as a fruitcake, including delicious plums and bad peanuts, but meant to be devoured hungrily all the same because you couldn't feast on the plums without also sometimes being poisoned by the peanuts.

  

  Erica Jong
  • People
  • Believe
  • Moments

• How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues, proportioned to no purpose. "It may well be imperfect," I say, "but it leaves traces. And we can follow those traces, like footsteps in the snow." "Where do the lead?" "To oneself," I answer. "That's where the mind is. Without the mind, nothing leads anywhere." I look up. The winter moon is brilliant, over the Town, above the Wall. "Not one thing is your fault," I comfort her.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Mind
  • Purpose
  • Lead

• Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Shame
  • Imperfect
  • Breaks

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

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • World
  • Human Beings
  • Imperfect

• I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Writing
  • Lord
  • Pencils

• The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness; in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect.

  

  George Sarton
  • Mind
  • Creative
  • Perfection

• A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Perfection
  • Imperfect
  • Accumulation

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