Perfect Passive

Famous quotes containing the words perfect and/or passive:

    “I say to you: Make perfect your will.
    I say: take no thought of the harvest,
    But only of proper sowing.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is, until we have stopped saying “It got lost,” and say, “I lost it.””
    —Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917)