As a samurai, I must strengthen my character; as a human being I must perfect my spirit
All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.
Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one.
New York is like that perfect lover that just won't commit but he's so good that you hang around anyway, NYC is dreamy!
In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?
With the early Christians you couldn't have God as your father unless you have the church as your mother. This isn't accepting the church as a perfect thing.
Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.
Jeff is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who plays a lot of obscure two-letter words that shouldn't count but for whatever reason are considered legitimate. My father is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who takes hours with his turn and then plays deliberately misspelled words that no one has the heart to call him out on. I am the perfect Scrabble player, both serious and considerate. Obviously I lost by a lot.
When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible.
Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.
The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.
Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all. Inequality of conditions and rights, and the resulting lack of liberty for all, is the great collective iniquity begetting all individual iniquities.
A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.
I know I'm flawed - but perfect is boring anyway! Flawed is good!
Discomfort is a pain. Boredom is a pain. A perfect piece of music can reduce us to tears. Every one of these pains is essential to the growth of the soul. Pain is part of the beauty of life. It enriches us.
Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.
Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.
To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.
The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.
