Searching For Perfection Quotes & Sayings

- but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to? — Lewis Carroll

Being a disciple is more than being good: it is about searching for perfection through the love of Jesus Christ. — Michael J. Coyner

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself. — Carlos Fuentes

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy. — Eduardo Galeano

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice. — Charlie Trotter

Love was as flawed and terrible and beautiful as we were.
To be alive meant looking for it in ourselves and in others, an imperfection searching for an impossible perfection.
Because in that journey was where truth resided.
Love wasn't about being held. It was about being freed. — Emma Raveling

Beauty,' Brimstone had scoffed once. 'Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire. — Laini Taylor

The inexorable search for a stanza of meaning hangs like a thundercloud over the troposphere of humankind's prosaic existence. A dithering sense of loss engulfs us. Humankind's unattainable desire to achieve a slice of perfection generates a suspenseful haze of doom. A lingering stab of incompleteness coupled with the tantalizing riddles of fate are inalterably interlinked and imbued in all thinking people's tormented soul. This cross coalescence of unattainable longing melds with the mystic tinged edges of uncertainty, spawned by the unanswerable questions posed by fate, fomenting a dialectical dissonance that distinguishes and ultimately exemplifies the arc of humankind's plaintive subsistence. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Death has its beauty. It makes you see the eternity in every second; it makes you see every moment's perfection instead of searching an eternity for the perfect moment. Time moves differently - beautifully - for those who only have smidgens of it left. But there is no beauty in death for those left behind. — Layla Hagen

Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose. — Stephen Jones

We throw away real people searching for the "perfect" person the same way that we throw ourselves away searching for our "perfect" self. — Vironika Tugaleva

Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection. — Anderson Silva

For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another. — Walter Cronkite

There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves. — Eugene Kennedy

Had there not been the film, my name would not represent somebody that's out there fighting for the environment. — Erin Brockovich

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate. — Bela Kun

Did they always pass out after shifting back to human?
It didn't seem very efficient.
Or had he been hurt?
Leaning to the side, she inspected the bronzed perfection spread over the quilt.
her mouth went dry as she tried to concentrate on searching him for injuries. She'd never seen a man so magnificently ... proportioned.
A broad, chiseled chest. Powerful shoulders. Washboard abs. Long, muscular legs. And a huge ...
Yeah. Magnificently proportioned. — Alexandra Ivy

Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means of seeing one's imperfections and the consoling assurance of grace which makes this realization bearable. This ultimate paradox of high religion is not an invention of theologians or priests. It is constantly validated by the most searching experiences of life. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Artists are strange people. They make the world a beautiful place, and make others feel good, but they are a bunch of lonely people. Artists are people with unfulfilled, unrealistic dreams, lonely, and always searching for perfection. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

That's what I hate about the war on drugs. All day long we see those commercials: "Here's your brain, here's your brain on drugs", "Just Say No", "Why do you think they call it dope?" ... And
then the next commercial is [singing] "This Bud's for yooouuuu." C'mon, everybody, let's be hypocritical bastards. It's okay to drink your drug. We meant those other drugs. Those untaxed
drugs. Those are the ones that are bad for you. — Bill Hicks

He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection. — Tryon Edwards

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. — Adam Smith

Perfectionism is searching for faults to justify low self-esteem. It is a guaranteed failure and fantasy. — Brittany Burgunder

Logan had infiltrated enemy strongholds with less effort than he was expending to get this family tell him the complete truth ... Something was very wrong when war seemed so much simpler than his home life. — Cat Johnson

The teller and the tale are very different. We must not forget that. — Neil Gaiman