Quotes About Perfection

It was a sad place, especially after a day at the Circle, where all was made with care and love and the gift of a good eye.

A circle is the strongest shape in the universe. Nothing can beat it, nothing can improve upon it, nothing can be more perfect.

Outside the walls of the Circle, all was noise and struggle, failure and filth. But here, all had been perfected. The best people had made the best systems and the best systems had reaped funds, unlimited funds, that made possible this, the best place to work. And it was natural that it was so, Mae thought. Who else but utopians could make utopia?

I think my teeth provide a necessary respite from the eerie perfection of everyone else's.

America isn't perfect, nor could any nation ever be, but that she has granted more people more freedoms than any other country in the history of the world.

So there is an issue—or a dualistic aspect of our desire for human perfection or at least progress—that begs for resolution. But I learned years ago that in this kind of no-win philosophical situation, there is probably a higher perspective that dissolves, rather than resolves, the dissonance. In other words, being versus doing may not be the issue.

It needn't look like any particular thing at all. How could we imagine that we could make a world as perfect and as lovely as the world that God has made? All we can do is to do our best. Paint and draw. Create your own beautiful imperfect world.

With a perfect memory did not come a perfect mind, or resolute decisions. Sometimes with perfection on one end of the equation, one was left with stark imprecision on the other. Perhaps it was nature's way of balancing things.

Hindsight held a level of perfection that real-time decision-making could not provide.

And most important, nobody could love or relate to you. It would be impossible to feel any love for someone who was flawless and knew it all. Doesn't that sound lonely, boring, and miserable? Are you so sure you still want perfection? Part V Defeating Hopelessness and Suicide

If the comments are wrong, there is really nothing for you to be upset about. On the other hand, if the criticism is accurate, there is still no reason for you to feel overwhelmed. You're not expected to be perfect.

His desktop was a sheet of black opal with neither paper nor a data console to mar its polished perfection. A small printer perched on the outer edge, as if contemplating suicide in remorse at intruding on so august a personage.

La santidad de Dios y su amor se encuentran, siempre y en todos sitios, inseparables, porque pertenecen igualmente al mismo carácter absolutamente perfecto y glorioso.

Nosotros, por tanto, vemos en Cristo todo lo que Adán debió ser, pero que nunca fue. Cristo recogió la urdimbre de humanidad que Adán había hecho caer y la llevó a su plenitud completa.

Una vez que me han visto, no pueden pensar en otra cosa ni quieren ver a nadie más y dejan de atender a sus responsabilidades cotidianas y creen que si me pueden tener a su lado todo el tiempo todo estará bien. Todo. Soy la solución a su profunda y esclavizadora necesidad de bailar mejilla con mejilla con la perfección.

Take pains. Be perfect.

He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.

O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

Alas, that they are so! To die even when they to perfection grow!

My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.

O, learn to love, the lesson is but plain, And once made perfect, never lost again.