William Safire Quotes

Flawless' is an unattainable thing.

If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.

You can't be perfect at everything.

You can't have a perfect show every time.

There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

Let's nail it down, let's get it right.

I always say we're chasing perfection in an imperfect game.

The moment you achieve perfection, you are dead. The word exists because we are all imperfect. That is true about performance as well.

I just want to be perfect on court, but is not possible. The perfect doesn't exist.

We've been expected to be perfect but we aren't. We're still human.

Perfect is unattainable. Better is possible.

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.

You don't have to be perfect. Most men never think like that.

When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?

You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.

My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with your child or a perfect child, and you yourself do not have to be perfect.

You can't possibly be right for everything.

You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren't perfect.

We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.