Edith Schaeffer quote: "People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it."

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
EDITH SCHAEFFER

Some of us (perfectionists, especially) fuss so much over making the 'right' choice, but in life, al...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is y...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to f...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or ...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, v...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your makin...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle i...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and co...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

It makes sense that there is no sense without God
EDITH SCHAEFFER

The thing about real life is that important events dont announce themselves. Trumpets dont blow,...
EDITH SCHAEFFER

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the out...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going t...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

All these obstacles, (investors) are seeing right through them. Where is the liftoff going to come f...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

The most popular price level that everybody thinks of is 10,000 because it's such a round number and...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

The so-called risky assets are continuing to outperform.
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

All these obstacles, (investors) are seeing right through them, ... Where is the liftoff going to co...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

I feel the odds strongly favor a broad washout before this bear market is over, if only because the ...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear pow...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, whic...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407 You must not lose confidence in ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 It was my generation, and the ge...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Feast of Joseph of Nazareth Men today do not, perhaps, burn the Bible, nor does the Roman Cathol...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary The higher the mountains, the...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

We cannot expect people to take seriously our belief in objective truth if, in our practice, we indi...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we shou...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolu...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

This is a tough vote and he buckled, ... I know he's made some tough votes before. It's hard to take...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

There's a disconnect between what people are doing and the reason for buying stock in the first plac...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

Because the market hasn't been doing anything, lots of people are selling options, selling calls for...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

I think there's a chance for a year-end rally. I think there's a chance, if we don't get that, for a...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

My feeling is that an upside break will be a head fake and a downside break will lead to a major dec...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

Institutions are the thundering herd. That's where the real vulnerability comes in. Money is already...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

But I think it's going to be kind of one of these Chinese food kind of deals: a little while later, ...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

[There's little reason to be excited about the sector.] Outside of tech is better than tech, ... But...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there ...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

There are already signs of a substantial reduction in these flows so far.
BERNIE SCHAEFFER

It raises further questions about whether we yet know the full scope of the problem. It's not a larg...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting p...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we shou...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolu...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Congress has failed to act to shore up wetlands protections after the Supreme Court decision. And as...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

With today's technology, a new refinery could be really clean - far cleaner than today's refineries ...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

At the core of my show is a human and compassionate spirit.
ERIC SCHAEFFER

Ultimately, the bill may rest on a shaky premise, as Clean Air Act permitting provisions seem to hav...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

[The Washington-based Environmental Integrity project reported this week that in the past few months...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

The environment really doesn't care about hourly releases. What matters is the total increase, how m...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

Under this proposal, it would never happen,
ERIC SCHAEFFER

Hopefully, what comes through is that it's certainly about much more than eating disorders. It's abo...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the out...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

This [gift] puts Signature on the map with major theaters in New York, like the Public Theater and L...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

Starved ... laughter is the best medicine. I know from my recovery in all areas of addiction that hu...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

Standardized testing has become the arbiter of social mobility, yet there is more regulation of the ...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

What is likely is that you will see a decline in scores whenever a new test is administered. It's du...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

The main reason I came here is because I wanted to witness the way this area has been cultivated wit...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

Even when people emigrate to another country; they are still a piece of our history. Its interesting...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

The testing explosion often creates overlaps between tests mandated at the district level, the state...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

I wonder if it's going to be a test too far. They're changing the length, the range and the format a...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

The president's idea was dead on arrival. Now it is well beyond rigor mortis.
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

More than half the states now require passage of a test before awarding a high school diploma. Propo...
ROBERT SCHAEFFER

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world ...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

He had it all. Now he's a quadriplegic.
DOUG SCHAEFFER

For Kevin, the most frightening thing for him is he goes in, can't move, and he's underwater. Nobody...
DOUG SCHAEFFER

It's the damnedest Rube Goldberg device you've ever seen.
DOUG SCHAEFFER

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emi...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

Hopefully, what comes through is that it's certainly about much more than eating disorders. It's abo...
ERIC SCHAEFFER

This relocation is very much in line with our plans for deliberate growth and expansion, and makes p...
JAMES SCHAEFFER

We are certainly concerned about this one. There are enormous legal pitfalls.
JUDITH SCHAEFFER

We are just beginning to unleash the true potential of what digital photography can provide for cons...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting p...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

We always look for a good piece. That sounds very simple, but it's not. We look for good writing, go...
NANCY SCHAEFFER

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
EDITH WHARTON

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the fac...
EDITH PIAF

What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th...
EDITH HAMILTON

He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great...
EDITH HAMILTON

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
EDITH WHARTON

I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
EDITH WIDDER

Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a ...
EDITH WIDDER

One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably...
EDITH WIDDER

We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecti...
EDITH WIDDER

We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made ...
EDITH WIDDER

In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapago...
EDITH WIDDER

It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent ...
EDITH WIDDER

I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organ...
EDITH WIDDER

I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurre...
EDITH WIDDER

The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.
EDITH WIDDER

If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the anima...
EDITH WIDDER

Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sp...
EDITH WIDDER

For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bio...
EDITH WIDDER

I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we&...
EDITH WIDDER

It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that...
EDITH WIDDER

Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in ...
EDITH WIDDER

We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there...
EDITH WIDDER

There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tel...
EDITH WIDDER

During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would s...
EDITH WIDDER

Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw...
EDITH WIDDER

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time...
EDITH WHARTON

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
EDITH WHARTON

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
EDITH WHARTON

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
EDITH WHARTON

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
EDITH WHARTON

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it ...
EDITH WHARTON

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it in...
EDITH WHARTON

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rise...
EDITH WHARTON

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to br...
EDITH WHARTON

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
EDITH WHARTON

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
EDITH WHARTON

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
EDITH WHARTON

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON

The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th...
EDITH STEIN

All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself...
EDITH STEIN

A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community un...
EDITH STEIN

During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impert...
EDITH STEIN

The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so ex...
EDITH STEIN

Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mot...
EDITH STEIN

Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into...
EDITH STEIN

As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people...
EDITH STEIN

Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past s...
EDITH STEIN

The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation ...
EDITH STEIN

One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And t...
EDITH STEIN

Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology...
EDITH STEIN

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for t...
EDITH STEIN

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every co...
EDITH STEIN

Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' ...
EDITH STEIN

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is t...
EDITH STEIN

The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every discipli...
EDITH STEIN

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN

In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it ...
EDITH STEIN

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elev...
EDITH STEIN

If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
EDITH STEIN

My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN

This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is ...
EDITH STEIN

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever...
EDITH SITWELL

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous...
EDITH SITWELL

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
EDITH SITWELL

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am...
EDITH SITWELL

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
EDITH SITWELL

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
EDITH SITWELL

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred a...
EDITH SITWELL

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
EDITH SITWELL

The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from.
EDITH ROGERS

I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki...
EDITH ROGERS

But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf...
EDITH ROGERS

The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ...
EDITH PEARLMAN

There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
EDITH PEARLMAN

Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit...
EDITH PEARLMAN

In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ...
EDITH PEARLMAN

The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, m...
EDITH PEARLMAN

The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
EDITH PEARLMAN

I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it w...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
EDITH HEAD

I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm be...
EDITH HEAD

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
EDITH HEAD

With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women star...
EDITH HEAD

Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright col...
EDITH HEAD

Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap i...
EDITH HEAD

As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothi...
EDITH HEAD

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressin...
EDITH HEAD

If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. J...
EDITH HEAD

You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear ...
EDITH HEAD

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
EDITH HEAD

Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your ...
EDITH HEAD

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.
EDITH HEAD

Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
EDITH HEAD

Some people need sequins, others don't.
EDITH HEAD

I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is m...
EDITH HEAD

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
EDITH HEAD

Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, beca...
EDITH HEAD

You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.
EDITH HEAD

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of chan...
EDITH HEAD

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil...
EDITH HAMILTON

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a...
EDITH HAMILTON

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ...
EDITH HAMILTON

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
EDITH HAMILTON

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
EDITH HAMILTON

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
EDITH EVANS

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down he...
EDITH EVANS

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

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People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

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