Jeffrey Tate Quotes
Sad Quotes by Jeffrey Tate

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
- Jeffrey Tate

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

If we spend the time we waste in sighing
for the perfect golden fruit
in fulfilling the conditions of its growth,
happiness will come, must come.
It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe.
If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well,
the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.
- Helen Keller

Happiness is the final and perfect fruit
of obedience to the laws of life.
- Helen Keller

Every day is the perfect day to ask yourself
questions about your life goals,
and how you plan to address those goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Just as in the comedies, a person who is in love
with the idea of love sees prospective partners
through the lens of idealism.
The reaction is, "This must be the one.
They are so perfect - the match of my dreams."
Is that person they just met a perfect match?
It's unlikely their friends think so.
So what happened? That person with the cute smile
was not much more than a mirror for the hopes and dreams
of the one in love with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline;
simulated fear postulates courage;
simulated weakness postulates strength.
- Lao Tzu

I say that Today is a Perfect Day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

None of us is perfect - and that's OK.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every day is a Perfect Day when I say it is;
and I say that Today is a Perfect Day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous

The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard

We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie

Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions;
it is easy in solitude to live after your own;
but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden

You are perfect exactly the way you are.
- Werner Erhard

I got a perfect build for clothes.
I'm a twenty-eight dwarf.
- the movie Love and Death

One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
- Yogi Berra

Your life within God's arms,
Your dance within God's arms,
Is already Perfect!
- Hafiz

Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

They have come up with a perfect understanding.
He won't try to run her life,
and he won't try to run his, either.
- Anonymous

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
- Alanis Morissette

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order,
and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
- John Ruskin

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect.
People want things to be better.
- Esther Dyson

A man who was completely innocent,
offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others,
including his enemies,
and became the ransom of the world.
It was a perfect act.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds
her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect,
not even my mother.
- Broderick Crawford

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist,
but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
- Michael Palin

God is the perfect poet.
- Robert Browning

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying
to get back to where it was.
- Toni Morrison

We waste time looking for the perfect lover,
instead of creating the perfect love.
- Tom Robbins

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure
is the most perfect refreshment.
- Jane Austen

You are perfect. You are complete.
Your inner voice always knows what to do,
but it is a quiet voice.
You can only hear the whisperings of your inner voice -
your inner compass - when you turn down the volume
of your fears, your regrets, your resentments,
and the fear-based advice
your neighbors are so willing to give you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking
place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
- Billie Jean King

Today is a perfect day to be happy.
Every day is a perfect day to be happy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To an engineer, good enough means perfect.
With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
- Alexander Calder

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite
of what you are inclined to do,
and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
- Ben Hogan

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation
that would operate with perfect equality.
- Andrew Jackson

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has,
it may be inadvisable to draw it out...
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
- A. E. Housman

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you
must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example.
My father wasn't perfect.
- Adam Sandler

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which
occur more frequently in memory than in life.
- P. D. James

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme
experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm a four star general in this thing,
and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general
by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.
- Sam Elliott

I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.
- Kirk Cameron

I am not a perfect servant.
I am a public servant doing my best against the odds.
As I develop and serve, be patient.
God is not finished with me yet.
- Jesse Jackson

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.
- Arvo Part

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the
most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan,
as portrayed by Milton.
- Charles Baudelaire

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
- Carl Sagan

I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
- Verne Troyer

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers
and it's OK not to be perfect,
you realize that feeling confused is a normal part
of what it is to be a human being.
- Winona Ryder

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be
weighed in terms of perfect moments,
but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.
- Ella Maillart

I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person
would have to play almost perfect tennis.
- Venus Williams

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?
- Robert Musil

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured,
it may never arrive.
Mountains will not be climbed, races won,
or lasting happiness achieved.
- Maurice Chevalier

The first object of my endeavours was the means to
become perfect and happy.
- Johann Heinrich Lambert

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions,
so an ashtray is perfect.
An ashtray has got life and death.
- Damien Hirst

I think life is full of challenges and problems.
I don't believe that anyone is perfect.
We all make mistakes.
It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.
- Nigel Mansell

You gotta know when it's time to hang up.
But when I finally go, let me go out on stage,
my perfect ending.
Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep.
Let me be in motion.
- Bobby Womack

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
- Simone Weil

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as
possible to that perfect moment.
- Lou Reed

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person,
especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.
- Hugh Mackay

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.
- Tom Berenger

To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium,
it's unbelievable.
Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history,
it really is a dream come true.
- David Wells

I want to be perfect.
I don't want to fail.
And you always fail.
- Robin Wright Penn

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be,
it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air.
Facts are the air of science.
Without them a man of science can never rise.
- Ivan Pavlov

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers:
you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems
and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent,
interpersonal relationships.
- Stephen Covey

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to,
and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.
- Lin Yutang