Quotes About Perfection

Edit more, my mantra.

Idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.

Beauty is not a human invention.

Normal people believe that, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

Loving difficult people will refine us. Perhaps only in heaven will our love be so perfected that we can actually like these people, too. St. Augustine spoke of a man who, on earth, had chronic gas problems; in heaven, his flatulence became perfect music.

There was something magic in their large perfect eyes, something that made you pay attention

Nature, at least, didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

What is destructible Is but a parable; What fails ineluctably, The undeclarable, Here it was seen, Here it was action; The Eternal-Feminine Lures to perfection.

Un ángel! ¡Bah! Todos dicen lo mismo de la que aman, ¿no es verdad? Y, sin embargo, yo no podré decirte cuán perfecta es y por qué es perfecta; en resumen, ha esclavizado todo mi ser.

Tudo quanto se acha fora de nós parece mais belo, e todos os homens mais perfeitos do que nós. E isto é natural porque sentimos demasiado as nossas imperfeições e os outros sempre parecem possuir precisamente aquilo que nos falta.

Our plans and designs should be so perfect in truth and beauty, that in touching them the world could only mar. We should thus have the advantage of setting right what is wrong, and restoring what is destroyed.

Sentimos tantas vezes que nos faltam algumas coisas, e por vezes nos parece que o que nos falta um outro possui. ... E assim imaginamos nós mesmos as perfeições que criam o nosso suplício.

Our plans and designs should be so perfect in truth and beauty, that in touching them the world could only mar. We should thus have the advantage of setting right what is wrong, and restoring what is destroyed. 13

She [nature] is the sole artist, creating extreme contrast out of the simplest material, the greatest perfection seemingly without effort, the most definite clarity always veiled with a touch of softness. Each of her works has its own being, each of her phenomena its separate idea, and yet all create a single whole.

Een engel! - Jaja, dat zegt iedereen over de zijne, is het niet? Maar ik ben nu eenmaal niet in staat je te vertellen hoe volmaakt ze is, waarom ze volmaakt is; laat het je genoeg zijn dat ze op al mijn gedachten beslag heeft gelegd.

Naša tragedija ne leži u životu, nego u žudnji za savršenstvom ne?eg nesavršenog,

It could have been called the scam of the century, their pretense of a happy marriage,yet as several weeks passed and it continued with such perfection, Rebecca had to pinch herself to keep from believing it herself.

The origin of the Church's holiness, as we have seen, is entirely outside itself; the consequences of this are that, first, it is manifest as a hearing of the gospel's promise and command, and, second, that its sign is penance, not perfection.

It has been popularly assumed that the Bible, bearing the stamp of Divine authority, must be complete, perfect, and unimpeachable in all its parts, and a thousand difficulties and incoherent doctrines have sprung out of this theory.23

In East Asia generally, the notion of a Supreme Being, so essential to Western religions, is replaced by that of a Supreme State of Being , an impersonal perfection from which beings including man are separated only by delusion.

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan." Stick to the good plan.

Instrumental music was only tolerated, on account of the times and of the people. But in gospel times, we must not have recourse to these, unless we wish to destroy the evangelical perfection, and to obscure the meridian light, which we enjoy in Christ our Lord.

He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.

All great art commences with a vision, and perhaps it may be that the vision is closer to God than that which is ultimately created by the artist's brush. There will always be human flaws in the execution. Only in the mind can the artist achieve true perfection.