#perfection

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#imperfections #beauty

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

I'm chasing perfection. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#i #perfection

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection. ↗

— Kim Collins

#improvement #instead #perfection #strive

Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection. ↗

— Jack Gardner

#decoration #perfection #utility #art

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

I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#equality #highs-lows #humanity #imperfection #equality

I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years. ↗

— Jim Lampley

#i #known #last #mean #most