#perfect

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am? ↗

— Annette Bening

#am #around #authentic #find #get

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#faults #first #may #motor #motor car

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. ↗

— George Boole

#also #appear #beautiful #being #being beautiful

Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. ↗

— Martin Bormann

#extremely #harsh #life #natural #perfectly

As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago? ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#anyone #aspirations #away #decades #denied

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong? ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#anything #astronomers #closest #discovered #empty

Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote. ↗

— Aaron Brown

#democracy #most #perfect #remote #sit

I'm chasing perfection. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#i #perfection

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. ↗

— Eustace Budgell

#either #esteem #first #friendship #imperfect

The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it. ↗

— Lance Burton

#been #beginning #dove #doves #first