#perfection

I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#i #man #much #need #needed

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#drink #other #perfection #rarely #sensuality

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. ↗

— Edward Coke

#common law #else #itself #law #life

Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection. ↗

— Jack Gardner

#decoration #perfection #utility #art

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. ↗

— Henry Fuseli

#each #essence #exist #idea #individual

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#artist #concern #else #his #kind

I'm not going to change my teeth or get a nose job. That manufactured perfection does nothing for me. ↗

— Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

#does #get #going #i #job

You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#beings #created #creator #dishonor #divine

There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect. Thus I lust over the flawless, and fall amorously forceless to the flawed. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#imperfect #kassam #love #perfection #philosophy

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#effort #ever #expect #minute #moment