Top 1200 Perfectly Good Quotes & Sayings

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.

There are perfectly good independent small nations.

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.

I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.

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.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

I happen to think that there are already tons of perfectly good babies out there already born.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.

My hair looks so good out in the desert, it's unbelievable. It's, like, perfectly not frizzy.

I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.

Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you bring it in.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.

My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all?

Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.

It helps with your acting when you're not in a perfect costume, perfect wardrobe, a perfectly seamed blouse, perfectly ironed hair, and perfectly done eyeshadow. It's really liberating.

Nothing works perfectly. The weather doesn't work perfectly. Because of sin in the world, nothing works perfectly. But in spite of that we can find comfort. We can find strength.

My laughter won't last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn't perfect. And it isn't. It isn't perfectly good. But, it also isn't perfectly bad, either.

Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

The best version of surfing is not competing, I think. It's just... it's perfect. You're perfectly present. You're perfectly in the moment. You're perfectly not thinking about anything else in the world. You're just surfing. You're surfing away with your friends or your family, and that's it. You're just there.

What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say.

It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be perfectly free and perfectly happy.

I think that we come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are.

It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

The stars don't have to be perfectly aligned for me to do a good job.

I said to my doctor at the beginning, 'I'm no good; I can't do anything. I'm dumb.' He suggested I try educating myself by listening to Boston's educational TV station. He said I had a perfectly good mind.

Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles.

He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself.

Remember that there is nothing in God but what is godlike; and that He is either not at all, or truly and perfectly good.

A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.

I'm perfectly fine with the fact that lots of young folks are wanting to watch anime and read manga. I'm perfectly happy that they are doing things online, reading there as opposed to traditional print magazines.

I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

Donald Trump is perfectly made up. He's perfectly coiffed. He's perfectly lit.

I like ambiguity because you may be the villain in someone else's story and the hero in your own, and I think very often, African-American characters are either one thing or the other. You shouldn't have to be perfectly good or perfectly bad. You don't even have to be magical.

We have contradictory expectations of police: We want to be perfectly safe and perfectly free. We want total security and total privacy. We want the bad guys stopped and the good guys unmolested. That's great for the consumer; try providing it.

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

In the awakened state, the mind is either perfectly silent or it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression.

In mathematics, two angles that are said to coincide fit together perfectly. The word "coincidence" does not describe luck or mistakes. It describes that which fits together perfectly.

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.

Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here's the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need it.

There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself