Best 4015 quotes in «perfect quotes» category

A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.

A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described at the University of Chicago and at M.I.T. A Chicago economist derived the formula and said, "Look at how few firms you need to get close to infinite elasticities and perfect competition." An M.I.T. economist derived the same formula and said, "Look at how large n has to be before you get anywhere close to an infinite elasticity and perfect competition.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.

Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.

A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations.

Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?" "Thank you, God," Petra said.

Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe.

Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.

A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

A fantastic, gleeful, chrome-plated-slick debut of a novel. In Jonathan Chase, Markham has created the perfect cliche-shattering super spy while honoring the progenitors. Dangerously sharp, and genuinely fun-and very, very, very smart. I want more books like this. I want more books from the mind of Mr. Markham!

A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and reply to their reply... or replies. And I no longer spend 20+ minutes crafting the perfect email - no need to.

A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.

A friend of mine, Derek Simmons, who's been on the podcast, said, "If more information were the answer, we'd all be billionaires with perfect dads." It comes down to motivation and incentives. If it isn't a punishment or a reward, then it's just talk.

After A Perfect Storm came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as Arizona, that I had helped her to find peace. That was the most amazing thing in the world to me.

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his head, you perfect that.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church that continually strives to take God's side in the battle against the ungodly desires and deceits of the world, our flesh, and the devil. It's a church that continually seeks to conform itself to God's Word.

A healthy person is not perfect but perfectible, not a done deal but a work in progress. Staying healthy takes discipline, work, and patience, which is why our life is a journey and perforce a heroic one.

A human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.

A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one.

A hug is the perfect gift, one size fits all, everyone likes them and no-one cares if it is given back.

... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.

Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit.

Alec looked horrified, as if she'd asked him to put on a tutu and execute a perfect pirouette.

Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.

All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust.

A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

All my life I've pursued the perfect red.

All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect

All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.

All my life I've worked to try to correct and perfect our system of government to make it more fair.

All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.

All of us sport an invisible sign around our necks -- “AS IS.” It means, take me as I am. I may not become what you want me to be. And I'm far, far from perfect. But I have some great qualities, too, as well as my share of faults. You will have to take me “AS IS” and I'll take you that way, too.

Allow yourself to be happy right now, even if outside circumstances seem imperfect. Waiting for everything to be "perfect" means delaying the happiness that you are meant to enjoy now. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy this very moment . . .now.