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Perfection Quotes
Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. - River Phoenix Quotes
Perfection is the child of time. - Joseph Hall Quotes
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is Gods business. - Michael J Fox Quotes
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. - Adam Smith Quotes
Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If theres nothing there, how can anything go wrong? - Richard Brautigan Quotes
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. - Arthur Koestler Quotes
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. - Ann Landers Quotes
Although images of perfection in peoples personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. - Dennis Prager Quotes
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly. - Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. - Walter Scott Quotes
The summer night is like a perfection of thought. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm. - David Rockefeller Quotes
In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul. - Edward Bach Quotes
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. - William Ellery Channing Quotes
[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isnt perfection but progress. - Michelle Burford Quotes
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. - Michelangelo Quotes
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
If Id been a housemaid Id have been the best in Australia - I couldnt help it. Its got to be perfection for me. - Nellie Melba Quotes
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education. - Burk Hudson Quotes
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. - Vince Lombardi Quotes
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. - Albert Pike Quotes
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. - Albert Schweitzer Quotes
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. - Louis Auchincloss Quotes
And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art. - Kathy Mattea Quotes
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. - Maurice Ravel Quotes
However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops. - Paul Von Hindenburg Quotes
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. - Lytton Strachey Quotes
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine De Saint Exupery Quotes
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. - Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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