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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Single, Thought, Prayer

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
Ramana Maharshi

Mind, Put, Become

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
John Ruskin

Work, Men, Actions

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
John Henry Newman

Change, Live, Often

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.
Rick Perry

Good, God, Strong

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Francis Bacon

Nature, Experience, Studies

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
Drew Barrymore

Life, Good, Happy

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
Cate Blanchett

Life, Great, Enough

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
Alfred Hitchcock

Cut, Cure, Throat

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
Gore Vidal

Age, Days, President

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.
Selena Gomez

Time, Best, Mistakes

I'm not perfect.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Christmas, Alone, Song

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
Doris Lessing

Simple, Thought, Prayer

Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.
Mary J. Blige

Life, Women, Pain

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Courage, Danger, Mental

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.
Paul McCartney

Time, Him, Jesus

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.
Rick Warren

God, Nothing, Done

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

Men, Feeling, Two

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
Karl Lagerfeld

Beauty, Time, Beautiful

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.
Travis Tritt

Redneck, Call, Box

Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.
Spike Milligan

Working, Order, Worn

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
Dan Savage

Life, Love, Family

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
James Russell Lowell

Days, Rare, June

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
Charles Baudelaire

Beauty, Difficult, Satan

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Dante Alighieri

Good, Bad, Treatment

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
E. M. Forster

Work, Art, Person

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.
Gary Ryan Blair

Waiting, Lost, Goal

I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.
Miley Cyrus

Beauty, Mom, Role

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
William Hazlitt

Liberty, Soul, Journey

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