Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Schaeffer

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

Beatrix Potter

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Baroness Orczy

I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.

Elizabeth Scott

Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.

Bayard Taylor

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.

Boyd Rice

Embrace nature's brutal perfection.

Alan Chadwick

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Bryce Harper

I expect perfection from myself.

Carolina Herrera

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

Camille Pissarro

It is absurd to look for perfection.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

Cheryl Richardson

I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should.

Charles Lamb

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

William Shakespeare

It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.

John Grant

I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.

Benjamin Whichcote

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

Benjamin Tucker

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

Charles Lyell

In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in perfection the oldest monuments of the earth's history, so far at least as relates to its earliest inhabitants.

Charles Lindbergh

I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.

William Shakespeare

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

Bill Nichols

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.

Bertrand Russell

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

Carlos Castaneda

The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

Carl Jung

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

Carl Jung

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

We bordered on perfection out there tonight. The tie is not over yet, but we've taken a magnificent step toward the final.

Bernie Siegel

We have to create perfection through love

Dora Russell

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

Colleen McCullough

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

Colleen Hoover

Imperfections define perfection

Jack Kirby

I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.