Quotes About Perfection

He really was perfect. If only he was perfect for me.

Glaukon makes the issue manifest by comparing the perfectly unjust man to the perfect artisan, whereas he conceives of the perfectly just man as a simple man who has no quality other than justice.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than nature does, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Art is never completed, only abandoned.

art is never finished, only abandoned

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

In der Einfachheit liegt die größte Vollendung

Tomaso of Florence. known as Masaccio, showed by his perfect works how those who took their nourishment from anything but nature, mistress of masters, were laboring in vain.

Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.

You're perfect just the way you are...is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

But this time she'd done everything right and they were leaving her anyway. You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.

the canvas had disfigured it. Koko squirmed and squealed and made himself

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

I feel as if we're the centre of the universe and a kind God has blessed two imperfect people with a perfect moment.

Not so wide that a woman would feel as if she might fall in, and not so small it looked as if he'd just sucked a lemon like Ronald Trump's, or whatever his name was. All in all, Richard's lips looked just right.

darkened. And, oh, the graceful curve of the lower landing, the hand-hewn craftsmanship of each individual spindle, the hours of meticulous, painstaking labor. Except, then he turned away from the staircase toward the front sitting room to discover built-in shelves, a gorgeously restored fireplace mantel, the original crown dentil molding . . . He gave up. He stood in the middle of

Where are these perfect families? Is it yours? Your friend's, your neighbor's? I don't think you can just point one out. The ones we're most likely to admire are simply the ones with the best-kept secrets. No, the real perfect families, they have warts and bruises and scars. They had to screw up and admit their mistakes. They had to do everything wrong so they could learn how to do a few things right. They had to hate so they could know what to love.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.