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Quotes About Imperfection

Regret is the most useless thing in the world. One cannot recall anything. And one cannot rectify anything. Otherwise we would all be saints. Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
A miracle is never perfect when it happens, there are always little disappointments. But once it's gone for good and nothing can change it, memory could make it perfect and then it would never change. If I can just call it to life now, won't it always stay the same? Won't it stay with me as long as I live?
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum." Joan
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Ja sam sasvim loš drug, Robi. - Nadam se da je tako. Ne želim ženu druga. Ja želim draganu. - Nisam ni to, - progun?ala je ona. - Pa šta si? - Ni polovina, ni celina. Ja sam fragment... - To je najbolje. To raspaljuje fantaziju. Takva se žena ve?no voli. ?ovek se brzo zasiti savršene žene. Žene od vrednosti tako?e. Ali fragmenta nikad!
~ Erich Maria Remarque
most likely explanation is that there was indeed a plot, however imperfect, to endanger the Lusitania in order to involve the United States in the war.
~ Erik Larson
Not perfect, not tidy. Just Happy.
~ Erin McCarthy
Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.
~ Ernest Hemingway
We all are flawed. If there was a perfect community, it would be ruined the moment I joined it.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Marriage is imperfect. We start with a desire for oneness, and then we discover our differences. Our fears are aroused by the prospect of all the things we're never going to have. We
~ Esther Perel
Marriage is imperfect. We start with a desire for oneness, and then we discover our differences.
~ Esther Perel
I)t's not a question whether your country is perfect or imperfect; it's a question of whether it's free or not free.
~ Andrew Klavan
Always afraid of making mistakes, always afraid of making wrong decisions, always trying to be perfect; fact is no one is perfect, and the best lessons derive from the mistakes and the wrong decisions we make. Don't be afraid of mistakes, and never regret the decisions you make; use them as a life lesson, and build on them.
~ Andrew M. Dixon
If it's impossible to understand how I could kick a weeping, torn-in-half cog that was gushing something that looked like tapioca pudding and whale semen on my nice shiny space suit, then you probably never kicked a car for getting a flat tire, or slapped a television remote when the batteries were getting weak, in which case you'll never understand what it means or meant to be a human.
~ Andrew Smith
Look at his toes. He, let's be frank, has two left feet.' 'Verily,' Chamberlain Le Goff confirmed without a trace of amazement. 'There are plenty of tapestries like that in Beauclair. The master who wove them was a true master. But he drank an awful lot. As artists do.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The law was given to reveal what real sin looked like. When God gave the 10 commandments to Moses, his purpose wasn't to show us how we can be perfect and make it into heaven. God knew we could never live up to it. He did it so we can could see how bad we really can be.
~ Andy Stanley
He was a good emperor. I won't say he is perfect, because he wasn't; no, my friends, no man is perfect and an emperor less than anybody, because he holds power in his hands, and power is as dangerous as an animal not fully tamed, dangerous as acid, sweet and fatal as poisoned honey.
~ Angélica Gorodischer
She is so beautiful she is unnatural; her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity, for none of her features exhibit any of those touching imperfections that reconcile us to the imperfection of the human condition.
~ Angela Carter
The Romans have had their problems," Uncle said. "Men are fallible, and some men are corrupt.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!
~ Angelina Jolie
Although it was shadowy and dark, Bim could see as well as by the clear light of day that she felt only love and yearning for them all, and if there were hurts, these gashes in her side that bled, then it was only because her love was imperfect and did not encompass them thoroughly enough, and because it had flaws and inadequacies and did not extend to all equally.
~ Anita Desai
Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
~ Ann Brashares
Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
~ Ann Brashares
Whenever I'm feeling down, I remind myself that my flaws make me perfect, because in reality there is no perfect.
~ Ava Max
Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.
~ Jeffrey Archer