Quotes About Perfection

But the wonderful thing about France is how all her perfections harmonize so fully together. She has possessed all the skills, from cooking to logic and theology, from bridge-building to contemplation, from vine-growing to sculpture, from cattle-breeding to prayer: and possessed them more perfectly, separately and together, than any other nation.

The beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly. Only when you do something is it almost impossible to do it without mistakes. Therefore people who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superior.

Delighted of course. It will only be a very scratch meal—just the sandwich crusts and broken meringue-shells and what's left over. Yes, isn't it a perfect morning?

America is a country without death. Everything is shiny and new to make you forget such a thing exists.

shalom really means God's perfection. Shalom encompasses all the characteristics of God—His righteousness, His justice, His unfailing love, His forgiveness, His holiness, and yes, His peace as well. Shalom is everything that is inherent in the one God and everything He planned for those He created.

I picked up a small square shortbread biscuit and stared at it, noting the uneven angles, wishing it were a perfect square, but it was, after all, merely a baked good, and baked goods did not ordinarily form perfect squares.

The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful.

Perfection....it functions as a form of myopia, a preoccupation with self-image that can stunt emotional growth.

She'd always heard that Paris was elegant but hasd struggled to imagine how. She'd assumed it would be rigid; the demanding intolerance of perfection. But...she was struck by the easy naturalness of everything.

Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse – a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.

There are no elegant potatoes.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. - Michael J. Fox

Always the perfect French, with never a contraction or word of slang.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." —Winston Churchill Changes

Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers sew shreds together and see beauty in the multiplicity of patches.

Unbelievable," I said when it was done. And Brilliant and Audio crack and That one will be everyone's breakup song, and so on, because great is never good enough for the artists; they always want to know exactly what you mean and which nanosecond of the song you mean it about.

If you want to stay single, look for a perfect woman.

Examine human handiwork under a microscope, and the closer you look, the more rough edges you find. It's inevitable. Our tools and manual abilities are limited. But look at God's handiwork under a microscope, and the deeper you go, the more organization and detail you find.

When you allow your fear or your insecurity or your unrealistic belief in perfection too control you, you are betraying that possibility of life. You are saying that you do not have faith in the artistic child born of the union between your imagination and your talent. You are measuring your art by your own standards of excellence rather than trusting your art and letting it make its way into the hearts of others by its own devices.

God's merits are so transcendent that it is not surprising his faults should be in reasonable proportion.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

To be normal is the ideal aim for the unsuccessful.

you are boys, your God is a woman. If you are women, your God is a boy. If you are men, your God is a maiden. The God is where you are not. So: it is wise that one has a God; this serves for your perfection. A maiden is the pregnant future. A boy is the engendering future. A woman is: having given birth. A man is: having engendered.

The fact is that if one tries beyond one's capacity to be perfect, the shadow descends into hell and becomes the devil.