Perfection Quotes (page 4)

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• perfect
• consistency
• which

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• perfect
• world
• witness

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• courage
• perfect
• look

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• perfect
• indifferent
• behavioral

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• night
• perfect
• perfectly

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful. Lou Reed

• perfect
• idea
• perfecting

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. Antonio Tabucchi

• mistake
• bored
• perfect

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. Kevyn Aucoin

• life
• perfect
• wellness

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. Louis Auchincloss

• excellence
• wishes
• good

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. Aristotle

• passion
• perfect
• buts

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. Thomas Aquinas

• thank god
• saying
• hand

I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. Looks like suicide. All the weeds say,... Harry Crews

• hard
• shadow
• moments

I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler sat in the palm of a perfection he'd created himself. 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. Chuck Palahniuk

• love
• love him
• men

With respect to love we speak continually about perfection and the perfect person. With respect to love Christianity also speaks continually about perfection and the perfect person. Alas, but we men talk about finding the perfect person in order to love him. Christianity speaks about being the perfect person who limitlessly loves the person he sees. Soren Kierkegaard

• feeling
• you me
• work

I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python. Yukihiro Matsumoto

• focus
• different
• images

So there are two you's, the one you create by loving and the one the beloved creates by loving you. The farther those two you's are apart the more the world grinds and grudges on its axis. But if you loved and were loved perfectly then there wouldn't be any difference between the two you's or any distance between them. They would coincide perfectly, there would be perfect focus, as when a stereoscope gets the twin images on the card into perfect alignment. Robert Penn Warren