Quotes About Perfection

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.

There are two perfect men one dead, and the other unborn.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Help your customer lighten up, let go, kick back, and save perfection for a rare picture day.

Sometimes he sang to me, making me smile because he was always slightly off-key, my husband who was so perfect at everything else. For me, that was part of his charm.

She feels a certain pity when she thinks of that time, that self. Such an earnest wife-self, wanting so much, her stance one of perpetual leaning forward, as though perfection was a town just a little farther down the road. She didn't know then that perfection had nothing to do with happiness.

How wretched is the man who sees the perfect opportunity and still waits for a better one.

Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life. Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death. Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.

I regret that [my grandfather] never saw the book. i had finished the third draft of what turned out to be five, but I had decided to wait until the novel was perfect before I gave it to him to read. What a fool I am. If you will forgive the one piece of advice a writer is qualified to give: never be afraid of showing someone you love a working draft of yourself.

The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of religion, science or reason, imagine that we can free ourselves from the limitations of human nature and perfect the human species.

Knowing the precise answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist. All we really want to know is that the helm is not unmanned. That the advocates of goodness and glory are still in control. That righteousness reigns. That perfection awaits. That the Atonement is real and available.

The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.

The Universe continues to be perfect at every moment and never permits even the first imperfect event to occur. It goes from perfect to perfect to perfect.

The masters, the ones who succeed tremendously and set the standard for others, are those who master the details.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Dashuria e sheh gjithcka ndryshe. Nga të gjitha vetëmashtrimet, ajo është më e përsosura dhe më jetëshkurtra.

In a proper utopia, they would not let any lawyers in.

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Sometimes you just have to open up to someone even if you don't know where this journey will lead you. A lot of people are scared of that. And you can never expect a man to be perfect - after all men don't get the perfect woman either

Natural Magick is taken to be nothing else, but the chief power of all the natural Sciences; which therefore they call the top and perfection of Natural Philosophy, and which is indeed the active part of the same; which by the assistance of natural forces and faculties, through their mutual & opportune application, performs those things that are above Human Reason.

The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.

Sugar, nobody's perfect. And when ladies try to be perfect, their periods stop.

It's so beautifully made,' she said. 'It's like a Prada shoe.

I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.