Quotes About Imperfection

I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes; I still learn from them. Nobody is perfect.

A life of anybody is not perfect; there is always things that happen, and that is what makes it interesting.

The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.

I've made social mistakes. We've all made our mistakes and tried things we kind of wish we didn't, but we plan around it. Things happen in situations that are unique and different, and no one is perfect.

I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.

We see acne and spots as an imperfection and I've gone to great lengths to cover it up with lots of foundation. And everyone thinks 'Toff's perfect' but I mask my imperfections.

I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer.

The paradox of perfection is that you should try and achieve it by doing quality work even though you know you can never achieve it.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.

Loving isn't finding perfection, but forgiving horrible faults.

But how true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Or, if not wholly true, how nearly so. Therefore, I have added to most of my pleasures the little flavour of bitterness, the flaw in their perfection, the canker in the damask, the worm at the root, the fear of loss, or of satiety, the fearful risks involved in their very existence, which tang their sweetness, and mind us of their mortality and of our own, and that nothing in this world is perfect.

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you're always flying off to blue perfection?

If he were alive, she might come to see his flaws...but a dead man is perfect.

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

The sun snagged on his crooked skin.

When God, the Great Mathematician, discovered that in making man he had overdone things a bit, he created the bedbug to even things out.

If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.

We live in an imperfect physical universe.

There is light and dark in all of us, Niamh. Sometimes life causes us to let in a little more dark than we're comfortable with. But as long as we remember the light exists to chase away the shadows, we'll be okay." He glanced at her meaningfully. "The dark is our imperfect natures, but without it, we'd never realize how beautiful the light is. How beautiful it is as it dances with the shadows. I know you'll be okay.

God is the greatest of artists! How good of Him to give us this world, and the change to imitate Him by bettering it. Wryly: If only we did not mar it, and ourselves, so often!

A tökéletességre törekvés kimerít, és nem változtat semmin. A tökéletesség eszmény. Márpedig minden eszmény elérhetetlen, sohasem valósulhat meg, mert akkor nem lenne többé eszmény. Az eszmény és a valóság között áthidalhatatlan, örök szakadék tátong. (A gróf)

I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all.