Quotes About Perfection

But no perfection is so absolute That some inpurity doth not pollute.

How many things by season season'd are, To their right praise and true perfection!

If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say 'this poet lies! Such heaven never touched earthly faces

For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than women's are. ... For women are as roses, whose fair flow'r Being once display'd doth fall that very hour. Viola: And so they are; alas, that they are so! To die, even when they to perfection grow!

The crow signs as sweetly as the lark when no one's paying attention to them, and I think that if the nightingale sang during the day while all the geese were cackling, people would think it sounded no better than a wren. So many things are made perfect and as they should be by good timing! But quiet. Look how the moon won't be awakened. It must be sleeping with  [Endymion

It was then I realized it was all too perfect.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

The maxim Nothing avails but perfection may be spelt p-a-r-a-l-y-s-i-s

Seeking perfection, Ross . . . in life it's dangerous, for it makes the less than perfect seem less than enough. Time is not indefinite.

Because what is civilized life but an imposition of unreal standards upon flawed and defective human beings by other human beings no less flawed and defective?

L'autunno indugiava come invaghito della propria perfezione.

Tedn't right. Tedn't tidy. Tedn't fair. Tedn't clean. Tedn't good enough.

Ross provava un senso di perfetta soddisfazione. Riceveva amore e lo donava in egual misura, generosamente. In quel momento il loro rapporto non aveva alcun difetto.

The maxim, Nothing prevails but perfection, may be spelled PARALYSIS.

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

But as I would later learn, Soon-Yi was not just a diamond in the rough but round cut and flawless

As I gushed earlier, the movie of Streetcar is for me total artistic perfection.

Soon-Yi was not just a diamond in the rough but round cut and flawless.

But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected. The Son must have the taste of death forever in his mouth. The Trinity must be tainted by it; there must be a certain stench at the right hand of God the Father. The horror must be real. Why would God wish that upon Himself? Why not leave death to mortals? Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? -- Love. That was his answer.

I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it...I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.

I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning it's head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.