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Quotes About Perfection

Human inventions march from the complex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.
~ Alexandre Dumas
better is a sure enemy to well.
~ Alexandre Dumas
lo mejor es enemigo de lo bueno.
~ Alexandre Dumas
you know that human inventions march from the complex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Bien sabéis que las invenciones humanas marchan de lo compuesto a lo simple, que es siempre la perfección.
~ Alexandre Dumas
And that you alone, among the men whom you do not recognize as your brothers- for you have said so, observed Villefort, in a tone that faltered somewhat- you alone are perfect.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Comme tous les grands seigneurs de cette époque, il montait à cheval et faisait des armes dans la perfection.
~ Alexandre Dumas
L'homme ne sera parfait que lorsqu'il saura créer et détruire comme Dieu ; il sait déjà détruire, c'est la moitié du chemin de fait.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Omul nu va fi perfect decat atunci cand va sti sa creeze si sa distruga ca Dumnezeu. Deja stie sa distruga, deci jumatate din drum e facut.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Absolute excellence is rarely to be found in any legislation.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I was beginning to understand. My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things; that was why everything had to be perfect.
~ Alice Hoffman
They kissed. They wanted to do more but couldn't. Samuel wanted it to be special. He was aware that it should be perfect. Lindsey just wanted to get it over with. Have it behind her so she could achieve adulthood—transcend the place and the time. She thought of sex as the Star Trek transport. You vaporized and found yourself navigating another planet within the second or two it took to realign.
~ Alice Sebold
But cheer up. Who could have imagined What the world is really like When we were children? We're old now, but in spite of all we learned, So much of it dreadful and scary, even Petrifying, We gave Life Our best shot. Perfection will have To wait for the next incarnation. And I mean of the world, not just us.
~ Alice Walker
Do I think if something's beautiful, it's perfect? I guess you could say that. If I'm in a rapture of beauty, it's perfect to me.
~ Alice Waters
Can you be a success as a mother? People only notice when you're not doing it right.
~ Allison Pearson
There are a great many things one can learn to do without actually doing them. Grilling is not one of them.
~ Alton Brown
If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
~ Ambrose Bierce
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Skin like ivory, perfect; A goddess, she must be. Slender fingers, unadorned; beautiful simplicity. A single teardrop; when did it fall? Could this goddess be mortal, after all?
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Chasing the dragon is an art, you know – it must be done properly.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Great men have great faults.
~ Joe Abercrombie
It's 'cause it can all go wrong so easily that you make every effort to be sure it goes right.
~ Joe Abercrombie
We've perfected our obsessions and traveled Too far into ourselves, like the mystic Made ashes by his own imploding light.
~ Joe Bolton
Always write as if you will never have the blessed chance to write again, so this has to be the best thing you've ever done. Do that, and it will be.
~ Joe Gores