Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sass Jordan

just the right touch of maturity and vulnerability

Richard Owen

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

William S. Burroughs

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

Woody Allen

She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.

Woody Allen

The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.

Woody Allen

You mellow too much you ripen and rot.

Richard Rohr

To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .

Richard Rohr

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

Vincent Canby

Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music. . . .

Kathie Lee Gifford

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond

Mark Helprin

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.

Joyce Meyer

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

Haruki Murakami

All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.

Bob Parsons

We are imperfect beings in a very imperfect world, and the one thing we can count on is that things will go wrong, and that each and every one of us will have problems.

Albert Schweitzer

We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.

Anne Bronte

There is always a but in this imperfect world.

Ivy Lee

In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.

Christopher Dawson

We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so long as those forces affect the political behaviour of mankind there can be no hope of abiding peace.