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Quotes About Perfection

The actor does not live, he plays. He remains cold toward the object of his acting but his art must be perfection.
~ Konstantin Stanislavski
Hate Scars. I'm physically flawless-why can't everyone be? Everywhere Lothaire went, people stopped and stared. Of course, then they usually ran. Lothair Enemy of Old
~ Kresley Cole
Lothaire: Hate scars. I'm physically flawless--why can't everyone be? Everywhere Lothaire went, people stopped and stared. Of course, then they usually ran.
~ Kresley Cole
That is the College of Art and Athletic Perfection, replied Ozma. I had it built quite recently, and the Woggle-Bug is its president. It keeps him busy, and the young men who attend the college are no worse off than they were before. You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.
~ L. Frank Baum
I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.
~ Dorothy Hamill
The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an artist and a gallery manager], to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.
~ Miranda July
See, that was the problem in relationships when emotion began muddying the waters. It was as if (Lexie) expected him to do or say exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, whatever that was.
~ Nicholas Sparks
People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don't realize is perfection is terrifying.
~ Dominic Riccitello
Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.
~ Henry Mitchell
Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.
~ Abraham Maslow
A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.
~ Martin Gardner
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.
~ Benjamin Rush
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
~ Samuel Johnson
. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.
~ William Pickens
The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.
~ Alexander Pope
If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.
~ Mark Twain
Nothing in human life least of all in religion is ever right until it is beautiful.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Only Jesus is perfect!" isn't in the Bible.
~ D.R. Silva
Miracles' rely on their observer's ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer's failure to notice the observed's defects.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all." Ibn Arabi.
~ Idries Shah, The Sufis
Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour.
~ Gichin Funakoshi
It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.
~ August Bournonville
With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.
~ Ron Chernow