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Quotes About Perfection

I have no name for what circles so perfectly
~ Coleman Barks
A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.
~ Unknown
Concentrate on the small things and do them well. -Dr Siri Paiboun
~ Unknown
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
~ Herbert Asquith
Thus the true, the good and the beautiful which ethical culture seeks can only come to perfection when the absolute good is at the same time the almighty, divine will, which not only prescribes the good in the moral law, but also works it effectually in man himself. The heteronomy of law and the autonomy of man are reconciled only by this theonomy.
~ Herman Bavinck
My job is about being right. Always. If I'm ever wrong, I must make use of all my means and resources to bend and align reality according to my mistake so that it ceases to be a mistake.
~ Unknown
Every shift is a work of art.
~ Herta Muller
Toshiaki learned that all living organisms were governed by their DNA. He was impressed by perfection of this system.Why did existence have the ability to design such a beautiful code? And how could such a simple structure account for endless diversity of life forms?
~ Unknown
He was the only human being who could appreciate and understand who She truly was. She refused to let go of such perfection.
~ Unknown
Once he had watched Liz making a silk braid. One end was pinned to the wall and on each finger of her raised hands she was spinning loops of thread, her fingers flying so fast he couldn't see how it worked. 'Slow down,' he said, 'so I can see how you do it,' but she'd laughed and said, 'I can't slow down, if I stopped to think how I was doing it I couldn't do it at all.
~ Hilary Mantel
There are some people in this world who like everything squared up and precise, and there are those who will allow some drift at the margins.
~ Hilary Mantel
Utopia, after all, is not a place one can live.
~ Hilary Mantel
You tell me the word pristine was perfect. It was the cure.
~ Unknown
Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
~ Holly Black
It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.
~ Holly Black
It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
~ Holly Black
An ombre ball gown, its colour deepening from white near my throat, through palest blue to deepest indigo at my feet. Over that is stitched the stark outlines of trees, the way I see them from my window as dusk is falling. The seamstress has even sewn on little crystal beads to represent stars. This is a dress I could never have imagined, one so perfect that for a moment, looking at it, I can think of nothing but its beauty.
~ Holly Black
He's so beautiful, so perfectly, horribly, inhumanely beautiful that I can barely breathe.
~ Holly Black
In the dream, everything was convenient, everything was perfect, everything would be fine forever.
~ Holly Black
Every quilt has an intentional flaw because the only thing that's perfect is God.
~ Unknown
Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.
~ Unknown
It is certain that during the sixteenth century, and the years that preceded and followed it, poisoning was brought to a perfection unknown to modern chemistry, as history itself will prove. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was, at this period, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are now lost.
~ Unknown
Mademoiselle de Fontaine had an ideal standard which was to be the model. A young man who at the first glance did not fulfil the requisite conditions did not even get a second look.
~ Honore de Balzac
We should credit [the sky] for what it is: for sheer size and perfection of function, it is far and away the grandest product of collaboration in all of nature.
~ Lewis Thomas