I've Never Been Perfect Quotes

#1. I'm strong on the outside, not all the way through. I've never been perfect, but neither have you.

Chester Bennington

#2. He wasn't perfect like Diego, but to Emma, there had never been anyone more beautiful.

Cassandra Clare

#3. It's never been a perfect world. It's never going to be. It's going to be hard and scary, and if you're lucky, wonderful and awe-inspiring. But you have to push through the bad parts to get to the good.

Carrie Ryan

#4. After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

Elisabeth Shue

#5. As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don't know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived from what they were or from their never having been (written).

Fernando Pessoa

#6. I have never done anything in my life except try to make myself ill when I had my health and try to make myself well when I had lost it. I have been equally and thoroughly successful in both, and today in that particular I enjoy perfect health, which I wish I could ruin again; but age prevents me.

Giacomo Casanova

#7. [As a young man] I sought thrills! I found them in Christ. I looked for something that would bring perfect joy! I found it in Christ. I looked for something that would bring pleasure and that would satisfy the deepest longing of my heart! I found it in Christ. And my life has never been the same.

Billy Graham

#8. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

Frank James

#9. As I read the Gospels, I never saw a time when Jesus was a doormat. Jesus found a perfect balance, and for me it has been an ongoing search to find the line to walk between making people happy and giving up too much in order to do so.

Shawn Michaels

#10. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came of his skin. it was like there had never been any hole in my chest. i was perfect- not healed but as if there never had been a wound in the first place.

Stephenie Meyer

#11. I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down ... ' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?'

Wes Borland

#12. Perfect, he was so perfect - the exact balance she hadn't known she'd been looking for: the roughness she loved and the sweetness she'd always craved but never found. It didn't have to be one or the other. She could have it all. With him, she could have everything.

Cherrie Lynn

#13. In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

Michael Schumacher

#14. It's perfect and deep and breathtaking, and feels like it will never end. There has never been another kiss like this one in the entire universe. This is the kiss. The kiss to end all other kisses.

Callie Hart

#15. I'm not J.Lo, she's not a real person. She was just a bit of fun that got really crazy. I've never been anyone but Jennifer. I was going to call the album Call Me Jennifer because that would be my way of saying goodbye to the whole J.Lo thing. But Rebirth is perfect because it means so much more.

Jennifer Lopez

#16. What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. But poor Mrs Clay who, with all her merits, can never have been reckoned tolerably pretty, I really think poor Mrs Clay may be staying here in perfect safety. One

Jane Austen

#18. We will never be perfect or without flaws, the lives we've been given are not like that. But, Lily, in my heart, you are perfect for me. Perfectly mine.

Mia Sheridan

#19. Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect - anad that is completely all right. We are who we are - and so is everyone else.

Joan D. Chittister

#20. This morning could have been perfect. The cruel truth is they have never been. Give us loneliness or give us death.

Sean Gabler

#21. Julie's voice could have been used to tune a piano. She was pitch perfect - and I never was. I was enjoyably close.

Dick Van Dyke

#22. Whenever someone 'pretends' as perfect, never made a mistake, error, sin in his life, I know that he has never been in the field...

Assegid Habtewold

#23. It took Descartes to deduce that God would not wish to deceive us. The world must be as it appears to be, the Frenchman deduced, because a perfect God would never wish to deceive us. Nothing has been explicable since.

Tim Parks

#24. I'm not perfect.
Never have been.
Never will be.

~ Louis Tomlinson

Louis Tomlinson

#25. You've always been two people. The Jenna who wants to please and the Jenna who secretly resents in. They won't break, you know. Your parents never thought you were perfect. You did.

Mary E. Pearson

#26. Eleanor should never have told them about Park's house, but she'd been dying to tell somebody. (This was how people ended up in jail after committing the perfect crime.)

Rainbow Rowell

#27. The great passions had never been moved by a perfect body but by an evolved mind.

Merce Cardus

#28. I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.

Drew Barrymore

#29. No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

Mark Twain

#30. Since I was the stupidest kid in my class, it never occurred to me to try and be perfect, so I've always been happy as a writer just to entertain myself. That's an easier place to start.

Stephen J. Cannell

#31. Was it good to treasure the memory of a few perfect hours together? Or would I have been better off never meeting him?

Jennifer Echols

#32. In all my longing for a family and a home, I'd never quite been able to decide what they should have looked like. But this house looks and feels so right, so perfect, it seems impossible any other place would suit me half so well.

Lisa Kleypas

#33. I never would have seen Chelsea reach up, take Logan's face in her hands, and kiss him. So the off again was definitely on again. And I knew then that Patrick was very wrong about my heart, because if it had actually been an encyclopedia I could have watched it all with perfect composure.

Marni Bates

#34. They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

Augustus William Hare

#35. I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#36. The exorcist had a slightly Australian tinge to his voice, and the laid-back, whatever-comes-next attitude of a man who had suddenly realised two degrees short of a sunstroke that exorcism was the perfect career choice he'd never been offered in school.

Kate Griffin

#37. It felt like one of those perfect moments where everything comes together. But like I said, I don't believe in accidents. Even if this strange, musical moment, the final result of a long chain of unlikely events, never came to anything else, it was meant to be.
Something new had been born.

Mark Peter Hughes

#38. My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.

Aleatha Romig

#39. I was perfect- not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place

Stephenie Meyer