quotes about Almost Perfect

last updated: November 28, 2023

We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought.
-- Roger Angell

Source : Roger Angell (2015). “This Old Man: All in Pieces”, p.20, Anchor

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“Letâ€™s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks.”
“The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.”
“The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.”
“In love's God-like breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe.”
“Man is ill because he is never still.”
“I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.”
“You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed.”

Source : "Nuclear Weapons - Iranian Statements", www.globalsecurity.org. December 14, 2001.
“I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.”
“The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.”
“A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.”