Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
Golda Meir

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
Peter Marshall

Mr. Speaker, the goal of stem cell research should be to help our fellow human beings. The debate on this issue has, unfortunately, moved into dangerous unethical territory when perfectly moral alternatives exist.
Jim Ryun

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.
Dick York

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
Tryon Edwards

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
Terry Prachett

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
Ferdinand Mount

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
Herbert Spencer

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
Marguerite de Valois

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.
David Prowse

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Laurence Sterne

Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.
Joshua A. Norton

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
David Herbert Lawrence

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.
Craig Johnston

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Thomas Mann

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Thomas Mann

One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that's how people live.
Tommy Hilfiger

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Milton Friedman

Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.
Peter Tork