Marjane Satrapi Quotes

Nobody's perfect. And if you think they are, you're sadly mistaken.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

The thing with perfection is that it's never perfect.

Last time I checked, no one is perfect.

If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

What I might have considered good, good doesn't mean every day is going to be perfect, you're not going to have bad breath, your hair is going to be in the perfect place.

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.

It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.

If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

So what if you're not perfect? nobody else is either.

I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?" "Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple." "But...you did something nice. Why?" He raised and eyebrow. "I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven't you noticed?

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.

Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.