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Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.
GARRISON KEILLOR, "The Art of Travel," A Prairie Home Companion, Jul. 28, 2009
Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache.... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.
GEORGE ORWELL, Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun
Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
There’s no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there’d be no challenge. Also, you’d feel inferior. If somebody is that perfect, how can you not think of yourself as being so imperfect next to him? I think people are perfect in their imperfections.
JESSICA ALBA, Maxim Magazine, Nov. 2003
Perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to John Jay, Aug. 1, 1786
We see but in dreams the ideal.
The perfection of her face created a sense of emptiness--like a house with no curtains in the window.
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
TERESA OF AVILA, The Interior Castle
The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.
DEAN KOONTZ, Dark Rivers of the Heart
From the moment perfection is attained, 'tis gone.
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Perfection is an undiscovered jewel.
Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
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