Top 90 Imperfect World Quotes
#1. We are imperfect beings in a very imperfect world, and the one thing we can count on is that things will go wrong, and that each and every one of us will have problems.
Bob Parsons
#2. Peter was a person who made mistakes and was forgiven by his Lord. Peter, then, is somebody not unlike us when it comes to mistakes, and he can show us what it really means to be a true follower of Jesus in an imperfect world.
Robert K. McIver
#4. If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed.
Palle Oswald
#5. I thought about Kizuki. "So you finally made Naoko yours," I heard myself telling him. Oh, well, she was yours to begin with. Now maybe, she's where she belongs. But in this world, in this imperfect world of the living, I did the best I could for Naoko.
Haruki Murakami
#6. We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so long as those forces affect the political behaviour of mankind there can be no hope of abiding peace.
Christopher Dawson
#7. Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.
Ellis Peters
#8. In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.
Ivy Lee
#9. People like me don't work towards perfection in an imperfect world. We celebrate imperfection
Shelley Coriell
#10. They wanted to rock, they wanted to roll, they wanted to feel the peculiarly human feeling of having a perfect night in an imperfect world.
Rebecca Wells
#11. Don't let anger rule your life. Avoid confrontation. It's an imperfect world, and people make mistakes, even when they're trying to do their best.
Stan Hinden
#12. Maybe there weren't fairytales, or dreams didn't often really come true, but this moment felt very close. As close as it gets to perfect in an imperfect world.
Lee Woodruff
#13. You are a drop of perfect in an imperfect world. And all I need , is a taste.
Pleasefindthis
#15. Perfect combinations are rare in an imperfect world.
Peter Hale
#16. A perfect word left behind in an imperfect World who does not know what it is capable of
Rosemarie Yusen
#17. even if a perfect system could be designed, it would still have to operate in an imperfect world.
Deborah Blum
#18. I am an imperfect man living in an imperfect world, trying to weave through the chaotic interactions of semi-causal events with linear logic, contradictory emotions, dialectic wisdom, and mortal integrity.
Leonard Seet
#19. We are gripped by God's will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God's love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.
Albert Schweitzer
#20. All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.
Haruki Murakami
#21. You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
Maxwell Maltz
#22. We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.
Joyce Meyer
#23. Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. The best way is to forget doubts and set about the task in hand ... If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.
Robert Hillyer
#24. It's an imperfect world, so you fit in perfectly.
Bryant McGill
#25. Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world. Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#26. The reality of life and an imperfect world dictates that things cannot be held constant to guarantee your success; you have to wiggle your way through a planned path within a maze, to attain your goal.
Archibald Marwizi
#27. So there we were; two perfectly imperfect people coming together in a perfectly imperfect world.
Craig R. Key
#28. Does tension exist between our perfect longings and the imperfect world?
Terrence Real
#29. Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.
Winston Churchill
#30. We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#31. Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.
Richard Rohr
#32. Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.
Sara Genn
#33. In a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that God could still create perfection.
Rex Reed
#34. It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.
Robert Fisk
#35. there is always a but in this imperfect world!
Anne Bronte
#36. Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
Paloma Faith
#37. If we ask what poetry is
we may say in general that it is
a victory over the world;
it is through a negation of the
imperfect actuality
that poetry opens up
a higher actuality
Soren Kierkegaard
#38. The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
Hermann Hesse
#39. If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better.
Dana Cowin
#40. The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is perfect in every moment, all transgression already bears grace within itself, all little children already have the aged in themselves, all the sucklings death, all the dying eternal life.
Hermann Hesse
#41. The brilliant escape, the funny line to cap it, despite the lack of timing. And the girl was still dead. The last act had not materialised. The world, and himself, remained so far from what they should be: so imperfect.
Paul Cornell
#42. That's the secret - to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing are all calibrated for the enjoyment of a perfect world. But since the world is imperfect, we must put blinders on the senses.
Rohinton Mistry
#43. If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
Max Born
#44. Why, after all, take as our standard a material world whose existence is affirmed by nothing more trustworthy than the sense-impressions of "normal men"; those imperfect and easily cheated channels of communication?
Evelyn Underhill
#45. Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, but appropriate actions in an imperfect one.
R.H. Blyth
#46. The beauty of grace is that God chooses to use imperfect people to demonstrate His perfect glory, love and Truth to this world.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#47. There would be a time when the world created people stronger than them. When all of this got worked out. But until then there would be women and men like Hanne and Alan, who were imperfect and had no path toward perfection.
Dave Eggers
#48. One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because ... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.
Brene Brown
#49. It was a beautiful thought that all living things were imperfect copies of the eternal forms in the world of ideas.
Jostein Gaarder
#50. Perfection is death,' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it?
Michael Swanwick
#51. According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and there
Rabindranath Tagore
#52. True beauty is what lies inside of us, not what the world sees. A beautiful shell that houses a vile soul becomes sullied over time. But an outer shell, imperfect as it may be, that houses a beautiful, shines with that beauty, radiating it for all who have eyes to see.
Sara B. Larson
#53. The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#54. In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a vice; We comes from God, I from the Devil.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#55. Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#56. The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.
Stephen Jay Gould
#57. This was the world of the living - no matter how uncertain and imperfect a world it might be.
Haruki Murakami
#58. Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it's a little closer to being perfect.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#59. Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.
Judd Nelson
#60. In a world like that, there'd be no need for love anymore either. if everyone were perfect, there would be no need to look out for others. Sympathy or Love is needed because people are imperfect. A perfect human cannot love anyone.
Tamiki Wakaki
#61. That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants to generate
at all costs, unfotunately.
Franz Kafka
#62. When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world - no matter how imperfect - becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.
Soren Kierkegaard
#63. This world, the eternally imperfect, an eternal contradiction's image and imperfect image - an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator: - thus did the world once seem to me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#64. The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect or confined at a point somewhere along a gradual pathway toward perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment.
Hermann Hesse
#65. You may be imperfect according to the world, but you're perfect in my world.
Courtney Lane
#66. There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.
Karen Marie Moning
#67. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.
Brene Brown
#68. My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances.
Julie Klassen
#69. We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no evil shall come either in the unknown where you are going, or in this imperfect and haunted dimension of awareness through which I move.
Laurens Van Der Post
#70. Church and family are both primary influences designed by God for a purpose and when they work together, they are orange. Both are systems comprised of imperfect people - that's why God desires to use them as a platform to tell his story of restoration and redemption to the world.
Reggie Joiner
#71. The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.
Armand Salacrou
#72. All the logic in the world could not blunt the pain. Logic could not blunt her terrible sense of personal failure. Only time would do those things, and time would do an imperfect job.
Stephen King
#73. I found happiness when I realized that as imperfect as I may be, I am the perfect Nick Vujicic. I am God's creation, designed according to His plan for me. That's not to say there isn't room for improvement. I'm always trying to be better so I can better serve Him and the world!
Nick Vujicic
#74. Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#75. A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.
Daniel Kahneman
#76. Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world.
Michael Barnett
#77. Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.
Cynthia Heimel
#78. Life-paralysis refers to all of the opportunities we miss because we're too afraid to put anything out in the world that could be imperfect.
Brene Brown
#79. The world ... is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment ...
Hermann Hesse
#80. It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
Alice Walker
#81. The world is imperfect, but there are millions of perfect moments.
Priscilla Warner
#82. If, as consumers, we can change our mindset so that we see gnarled, twisted, lumpy or otherwise imperfect produce as beautiful, we can create demand, change the system and ultimately help feed the world.
Dana Cowin
#83. When you are ready to accept him for the imperfect man that he is, and find happiness in his imperfect company, you have definitely found love, and the two of you can create the perfect world for each other!
Kimberly Ann Moore
#84. She couldn't "heal" him. No woman could. Events that far in the past just couldn't be undone. But perhaps he didn't need a cure, but . . . a lens. Someone who accepted him for the imperfect person he was, and then helped him to see the world clear. Like spectacles did for her.
Tessa Dare
#85. The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?
Carl Andre
#86. To have access to literature, world literature, was to escape the prison of national vanity, of philistinism, of compulsory provincialism, of inane schooling, of imperfect destinies and bad luck.
Susan Sontag
#87. I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.
Luke Scott
#88. You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
Jasper Fforde
#89. In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
Ezra Stiles
#90. There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect self, and even if I kept moving, she would dog me all the way around the world, forever.
Kristin Kimball