Famous quotes containing the words helps, achieve and/or perfection:
“It especially helps if you know that we’re all faking our adulthood—even your parents and their parents. Beneath these adult trappings—in our president, in our parents, in you and me—lurk the emotions of a child. If we know that only about ourselves, we become infantile; if we understand that about everybody, then we have nothing to be ashamed of—unless, of course, we go around acting like a child and expecting everyone else to act like grownups.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“Prosperity or egalitarianism—you have to choose. I favor freedom—you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.”
—Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936)
“Orsino. For women are as roses, whose fair flower
Being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
Viola. And so they are. Alas, that they are so:
To die even when they to perfection grow.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)