"Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way."

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Source : Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.14, Usborne Publishing Ltd

Stephanie Perkins

#Thinking Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Way Quotes

“The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise”
“Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.”
“...the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.' ... Okay, fine. So like everybody in the old countries says, 'Hey, I'm a huddled mass,' and they all wanna come over.”
“Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.”

Source : House of Commons, 1801
“Do you know what Irish Alzheimer's is? It's when you forget everything but your grudges.”
“Over all, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things that he knows of and senses in the universe. . . Thats what I would like to do. I think thats one of the greatest things you can do in life and we all try to do it in some way. The musicians is through his music.”
“There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.”
“Since loans are getting more expensive and there's less money available, we're seeing a commensurate decline in growth. Higher costs and lower growth, in turn, translate into lower profits. Figuratively speaking, in the future, we won't be able to run as far or jump as high as we used to.”

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