Quotes About Perfection

The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. An aesthetic holocaust! Bennie knew better than to say this stuff aloud.

Libby's hair was dyed again--not one color, but dozens. I thought about what she'd said about her ninth birthday. About the cupcakes my mom had baked for her, and the rainbow colors she'd clipped into her hair, and I wondered how much of her life Libby had spent trying to get that one perfect moment back.

For what it's worth, you showed me something, Ultraviolet - there is such a thing as a perfect day.

The thing is, they were all perfect days.

Let me ask you something. Do you think there's such a thing as a perfect day?" "What?" "A perfect day. Start to finish. When nothing terrible or sad or ordinary happens. Do you think it's possible?" "I don't know." "Have you ever had one?" "No." "I've never had one either, but I'm looking for it.

And then, because I'm now the one thinking too much, and because she is different from all other girls and because I really, really don't want to screw this up, I concentrate on kissing her on the banks of the Blue Hole, in the sunshine, and I let that be enough.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it

We're women and men who are so sinful and flawed that we deserve hell, but we've been so loved and welcomed that every spiritual blessing, adoption, tender fellowship with our Father and each other, forgiveness, reconciliation, and eternal life is ours. Christ's accomplishments and perfections are ours now. Everything about us is different.

Without error there can be no brilliancy

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

He caressed them, did them violence even, and shed tears of despair over his failures to make them either sufficiently beautiful or sufficiently alive. (42)

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Meu espírito nunca esteve mais próximo de Deus do que ao contemplar aquela perfeita imagem do repouso divino. Instintivamente, repeti as palavras que ela pronunciara, algumas horas antes: Incomparavelmente acima de todos nós — assim estava ela, Ainda na terra ou já no céu, o seu espírito já está unido a Deus!

It is finished, is never said of us

Let me not mar that perfect dream By an auroral stain, But so adjust my daily night That it will come again.

If I wasn't a perfect woman, I'd bust you in the nose.

Who never wanted, ? maddest joy Remains to him unknown ; The banquet of abstemiousness Surpasses that of wine. Within its hope, though yet ungrasped Desire's perfect goal, No nearer, lest reality Should disenthrall thy soul.

Dinner will not be perfect, but I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

Because sometimes I have the feeling that everyone thinks that everyone else is living a fairy tale. Especially in the South. People fake things so much. Put on a happy face and show off your perfect life.

I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

But he was a golden child, too good for the world.

Estoy aprendiendo que la perfección no es lo que importa. De hecho, es precisamente lo que te puede destruir, si se lo permites.

I've often let my goals supersede the journey—and the love of what I'm doing. A constant battle to stay in control, get to the next level, ensure that my life stays perfectly, carefully scripted.