Quotes about perfection

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“You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life”

“How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.”

“How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.”

“It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.”

“Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn’t Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best.
Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out.”

“Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.”

“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”

“Yeah, Atatsuki, don't call him by that name. It's rude! Kuran-sama is handsome, well-behaved, and a perfect honor student. Calling him "gang leader" would ruin his image!! At least call him "SUPREME GANG LEADER!!”

“It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.”

“We are none of us perfect, and… we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are”

“I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.”

“Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?”

“Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.”

“It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.”

“…that perfect Tranquillity of Life, which is no where to be found, but in retreat, a faithful Friend and a good Library…”

“I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof”

“What did that stupid deserting crap-bag ex-boyfriend, ex-best friend with the most perfect stupid hair do? He DIDN'T delete his crap off the desktop before he fled my life and left me all alone. That's what he did.”

“Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ]”

“Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.”

“Education is the manifestation of perfection present already in man. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.”

“To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect.”

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.”

“… this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath…”

“You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.”

“How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.”

“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.”

“Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.”

“Hell of a world we live in, huh? (…) But it could be worse, huh?"
"That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect.”

“The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.”

“Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.”

“But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.”

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”

“There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.”

“Silence is the perfect expression of scorn.”

“God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.”

“I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.”

“Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.”

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”

“And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect.”

“Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.”

“People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time - but even on the best day nobody's perfect.”

“When she comes
She pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
Her head tilts back
Her mouth opens slightly
Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt
She is perfect
And you feel like you are everything.”

“Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as… as…”
“Dead mice?” Reynie suggested.
“Perfect,” said Kate with an approving nod. “As quiet as dead mice.”

“You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.”

“There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and improve his means of expression; he is always pursuing facts and words.”

“The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”

“A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”

“Using supernatural beings to build the perfect weapon? Intriguing idea."

"Not really," I said. "They did it on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A sub-par season. I slept through half the episodes.”

“That's when it struck me: how gorgeous we all were, even with cellulite (saw a lot of that) and stretch marks, scars and tattoos. Let me just say this, not single body was perfect, not even the fittest of women there.”

“There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.”

“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”

“Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.”

“There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!”

“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and
farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your
thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.”

“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”

“To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line…. That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.”

“To give a man 5 sous because he is poor and has no bread is perfect, but to give him a blowjob because he has no girlfriend is too much of a good thing: you don't have to do that.”

“We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.”

“If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.”

“Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.”

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”

“He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.”

“One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”

“I see you're trying to distract me from the real point here," Magnus said instead. "You had a birthday - a perfect excuse for me to throw one of my famous parties - and you didn't even tell me about it?”

“Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.”

“If God only used perfect people, nohting would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.”

“Finally getting control of myself, I kissed her again, then brought my hand to her face, gently running my fingers over her cheek. I marveled at the softness of her skin, the gentleness I saw in her eyes. Even now she was perfect.”

“Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.”

“Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.”

“Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection;”

“Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.”

“See I'm the reckless and wild one who saves him from being boring. It's why we're perfect for each other. We balance. - Madame Selena”

“With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future… all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.”

“andAt the core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.”

“You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.”

“Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.”

“The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.”

“Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.”

“Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped, like perfect complements.”

“To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well”

“Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.”

“I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.”

“It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.”

“And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.”

“Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.”

“A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.”

“Although I maintain that if she were more perfect, she would be less interesting.”

“What happens when perfection isn't good enough?”

“Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.”

“Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.”

“Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.”

“It was just perfect, just right all at once.”

“I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”

“I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.”

“God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.”

“Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right.”

“They wanted to rock, they wanted to roll, they wanted to feel the peculiarly human feeling of having a perfect night in an imperfect world.”

“Perfect Day:
It was a day filled with the glow of ordinary things & we passed them quietly from hand to hand for a long time & someone said she had picked a perfect day to be born & I think all of us felt the same.”

“It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.”