Imperfectly Quotes


Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectly than it is to do somebody elses work perfectly. - Bhagavad Gita


LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system --an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males. The male of our species has a rudimentary lap, imperfectly developed and in no way contributing to the animal's substantial welfare. - Ambrose Bierce


I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight. - Karl Philipp Moritz


I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time. - Franz Boas


I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. - E. T. Bell


Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer. - Hermann Von Helmholtz


Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will? - Cal Thomas


Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it? - Henry David Thoreau


Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live. - William Butler Yeats


Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. - Robert H. Schuller


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