Quotes About Perfection

Is the perfect murder ever possible?

When God, the Great Mathematician, discovered that in making man he had overdone things a bit, he created the bedbug to even things out.

Message: I can make fun of myself despite my perfection: I am more like you in this regard: it's safe for you to like me: please desire me: please give me your money for the honor of desiring me.

Love is just another idea. And ideas are perfect, but executions of ideas are not.

My ideal weight is moobless.

A tökéletességre törekvés kimerít, és nem változtat semmin. A tökéletesség eszmény. Márpedig minden eszmény elérhetetlen, sohasem valósulhat meg, mert akkor nem lenne többé eszmény. Az eszmény és a valóság között áthidalhatatlan, örök szakadék tátong. (A gróf)

This creation is so perfect that you can forget the Creator – you can just discard him, dump him – and still it goes on. So a true compliment to the Creator is when you forget about him. (Laughs) That is a real compliment to the wonderful piece of creation he has made; it is so perfect within itself that it does not need to draw from anything outside.

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason that governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason.

Then hath a man attained to the estate of perfection in his life and conversation, when he so spends every day, as if it were his last day: never hot and vehement in his affections, nor yet so cold and stupid as one that had no sense; and free from all manner of dissimulation.

If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

What people want is perfection, said the man. In themselves. But they need the steps to it to be pointed out, said the woman. In a simple order, said the man. With encouragement, said the woman. And a positive attitude.

the argument for the perfectibility of humankind rests on a logical fallacy. Thus: man is by definition imperfect, say those who would perfect him. But those who would perfect him are themselves, by their own definition, imperfect.

One boy had drawn a perfect isosceles triangle on every single page- meticulously, it was emphasized. Meticulously was a chilling touch: meticulousness, we knew, was just one step away from full-blown lunacy.

Too good to be true, I will think. Too good for this earth. Good, be thou my evil.

Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it.

Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it.

I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

He was gorgeous. Every feature on his face perfect, dark and inviting. The boy could be his own photo shoot." Kasey Reese - Men of the Cave

A lot of teenagers today are influenced by the media's depiction of perfection. I want readers to understand they don't have to follow the unofficial laws society creates, to be liked by others.

A lot of teenagers today are influenced by the media's depiction of perfection. I want readers to understand they don't have to follow the unofficial laws society creates, to be liked by others.

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.