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We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.
The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.
We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.
Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.
The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.
Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.
The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.
Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.
If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.
Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.
I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.
... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.
If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.
Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .
A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.
He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.
When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.
But you see when I play a game of Bobby, there is no style. Bobby played perfectly. And perfection has no style.
Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.
Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.
If you are unwell, don't ask to be healed, instead ask to be restored to that perfection from which you emanated.
Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.
Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.
The difference of a single day is perceptible. Vegetables can only be tasted in perfection, gathered the same day.
Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.
I don't think, that you can always - you can ever - get your game to perfection, you know. Only if you're Federer.
I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.
I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.
The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.
Jesus removes all that is superfluous & unclean from our prayers, & adds His perfection, beauty & fragrance to them!
The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.
Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.
The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.
God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.