Perfect Powers

Famous quotes containing the words perfect and/or powers:

“The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)

“For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved, condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)