If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.
~ Tony Judt
I want to make this world perfect.
~ Malala Yousafzai
Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.
~ Peter L. Bergen
Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
~ Clive Owen
My perfect guy wears converse, is totally laid back, and doesn't worry about being cool.
~ Selena Gómez
Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
~ Ben Hogan
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
~ Billie Jean King
In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
~ Nate Berkus
I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.
~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic
I feel like there's a lot of noise in the social space. The Vines and Instagrams of the world are gaining traction, and their solutions are perfect for their communities.
~ Chad Hurley
Reusable rockets promise much easier testing because you should usually get them back, and you can debug as you go rather than having to get everything perfect the first time.
~ Henry Spencer
I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.
~ Zooey Deschanel
Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.
~ Mary Berry
As Michael Scheuer, who ran the C.I.A.'s bin Laden unit until 1999, has pointed out, if bin Laden believed in Christmas, the Iraq war would be his perfect present from Santa Claus. The 9/11 attacks and the subsequent war in Afghanistan severely damaged bin Laden's organization.
~ Peter Bergen
'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.
~ Claire Tomalin
Yep, I'm a geek. Ever since I got the Millennium Falcon for Christmas in 1978. And I still have it, in perfect condition, just without the box... but I still play with it!
~ Joseph Gatt
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
~ Alexander Hamilton
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
~ Jane Austen
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
~ Thomas Aquinas
All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.
~ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
~ John Ruskin
The overwhelming message of the Atonement is the perfect love the Savior has for each and all of us. It is a love which is full of mercy, patience, grace, equity, long-suffering, and, above all, forgiving.
~ James E. Faust
The Lord, Jesus Christ, is our perfect example of patience.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
~ Andrew Jackson
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
~ Robert Toombs
Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
~ Luciano Pavarotti
Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.
~ Suzanne Somers
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
~ Franz Kafka
My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.
~ Anton Du Beke
There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
My perfect weekend is going for a walk with my family in the park. I don't think there's anything better.
~ Anne Wojcicki
In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
~ Antonin Scalia
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.
~ John Irving
I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.
~ Charles Jencks
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
~ Maya Lin
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
~ Sam Keen
Ultimately, the perfect meal is when those things come together - circumstance, the food, ambiance, and you're with the person that you want to be with.
~ Grant Achatz
I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.
~ Ken Baumann
