The World Isn't Perfect Quotes

#1. Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can't. In a perfect world, we would never hurt the ones we love or cause hurt to befall them. But the world isn't perfect and neither are we.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. You want the world to be perfect, Nedril - and that's a noble goal. But the world isn't perfect. It's people like me who give the world the chance to try another day for virtue.

Jennifer McKeithen

#3. It is a dangerous assumption to say that people who drain energy "don't know what they are doing." People are sophisticated aware beings. Don't sit around and equivocate; they'll drain you more.

Frederick Lenz

#4. [People] are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.

Boris Johnson

#5. Isn't that the point of living? To find the one person in all the world who's your perfect match?" "Actually, Taylor, the point of living is not dying. Romeo and Juliet failed at that part.

Leisa Rayven

#6. America isn't perfect but there's not a better place in the world for people of any faith.

Tucker Elliot

#7. Even if you are perfect, the world isn't. The secret is to know that the deck is stacked, that you will lose, that your hands or judgment will slip, and yet still struggle to win...

Paul Kalanithi

#8. Life isn't filled with perfect harmony. The world is littered with bum notes, off-key moments and tuneless episodes. The trick is to find your own music, to ignore the discord and sing your own tune.

Annie Lyons

#9. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor

Neal Shusterman

#10. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else ... But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.

John Green

#11. You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

Maynard James Keenan

#12. It must be hard being you," she said. "Mr. Perfect on the outside. Dr. Evil on the inside."
"It's not that hard. The rest of the world isn't as insightful as you.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#13. He isn't wearing a shirt ... He shouldn't just walk around like that; it's obscene to have to look at someone so perfect. He should do the world a favor and eat a donut or two.

Amy A. Bartol

#14. Forsake Reality and I'll Show you a Wonder

John Evans

#15. The smart phone isn't a perfect device, as we all know. It forces the world into a tiny screen. It runs out of battery, bandwidth, and power. It distracts us from the world around us.

John Battelle

#16. There isn't a landscape in the world that is more artfully worked, more lovely to behold, more comfortable to be in, than the countryside of Great Britain. It is the world's largest park, its most perfect accidental garden.

Bill Bryson

#17. In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

Neal Shusterman

#18. Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.

Charles De Lint

#19. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.

Daniel Berrigan

#20. This world isn't perfect. That means it isn't perfectly good; but it isn't perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.

Yasmin Mogahed

#21. When people are faced with a choice between the Northern Ireland they have got and the perfect Northern Ireland, they complain. But in the real world that isn't the choice.

John Reid

#22. But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

Ezra Stiles

#23. Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

Charles R. Swindoll

#24. I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

David Henry Hwang

#25. I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

Quincy Jones

#26. The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.

Frances Perkins

#27. It's so hard being handsome, isn't it?" I mocked him.
But he nodded and shrugged. "Sometimes I ask God why, but then I realize someone has to show the world the perfect male specimen. Why not me?

Amelia LeFay

#28. The US isn't a perfect model of the world,

Randall Munroe

#29. No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

Daniel Berrigan

#30. family likely heard about the tragedy and wanted to help.

Debra Webb

#31. 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

#32. Nothing succeeds like succession.

Andrew Garve