Quotes About Perfection

America is not perfect, but it's much better than anywhere else in the world.

Sophia fully and truly thinks she will die. The sound of it is a knife, if a knife could kiss, and the kiss could turn the color of morning... ... Yet it contains a perfection that is twin to pain.

Accuracy is next to godliness.

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Like everything perfect, he set up a ferocious pain inside me -- a flickering, griping sort of pain, because nothing as marvelous as that is ever within reach, is it? Nothing as beautiful can ever last.

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

Non solamente bisogna che il poeta imiti e dipinga a perfezione la natura, ma anche che la imiti e dipinga con naturalezza, anzi non imita la natura chi non la imita con naturalezza.

Tutto si è perfezionato da Omero in poi, ma non la poesia.

For those few minutes I experienced a feeling of complete mastery, a perfect, unstable equilibrium. The kind of perfection that belongs only to things that are temporary, destined to end shortly.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.

The incarnation, passion, and resurrection of the Son do not modify the Trinity. In becoming man, the Son 'enhanced human nature without diminishing the divine.' 'Even when the Word takes a body from Mary, the Trinity remains a Trinity, with neither increase nor decrease. It is forever perfect.

No matter what I give, I will always fall short of what I—daughter, mother, wife—am supposed to be.

The notion of the perfect time is more than myth. It's the ultimate self-delusion.

We were never meant to be anything other than the way we are right now. True perfection is life just as it is.

The one infinite is perfect, in simplicity, of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God, universal Nature, occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance.

Elpino. We shall say that this finite world [20] with the finite stars embraceth the perfection of all things. Theophilo. You may say so, but you cannot prove it. For the world [20] of this our finite space embraceth indeed the perfection of all those finite objects contained within our space, but not of those infinite potentialities of innumerable other spaces

The Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect.

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Perfection in the context of the world isn't about everything being favourable for man, it's about the world being favourable for man which it is.

This is a perfect world. An imperfect world would have been terrible.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

I've known a boy. I've measured beauty. What more do I want?

Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty.

If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I hit it straight, it's a miracle.