The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“I am not looking for a "perfect" man. Only one who matches me on an emotional, spiritual, sexual, and intellectual level.” — Amanda Mosher Copy Share Image
That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Perfection is an ideal that helps in removing, not demeaning imperfections. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle,… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
I often think that the ideal of our perfection that we set up, and often go through torture to achieve, may not… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Remember in life that though many of us attempt to be perfect, there is no way that we ever will or can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember 'The Cosby Show,' but that was something completely different. Comedy. There was a lightness to it and a sort of… — Corey Hawkins Copy Share Image
He created the flavors! He created the colors. He created it all, and he did it all out of the overflow of… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
“If you focus on every detail, try to make everything perfect, and become cautious about all the steps you take – you’ll… — Vishal Ostwal Copy Share Image
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
