Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Evert

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Diane Kruger

The reason I stopped modeling was because I was not pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even when I do photo shoots now for films, I am just not interested in trying to look my best all the time anymore. That pursuit of an impossible perfection seems ridiculous to me now. I would rather show my vulnerabilities or my doubts than try to be something that no one is.

Eike Batista

Don’t aim for perfection, aim for success.

Edsger Dijkstra

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

Eddie Vedder

Well there's a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it's humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I've got to do is I've got to stop expecting it of myself.

Ed Parker

To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often.

Earl Nightingale

Excellence always sells.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

Alexander Wang

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

William Shakespeare

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

Aristotle

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Evelyn Waugh

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

Oscar Wilde

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

Joseph Joubert

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Jean Genet

...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Frank Lloyd Wright

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented

Sam Veda

One, who gives in charity always gets happiness and sense of self-satisfaction.

Paris Hilton

No one writes about my charity work, they'd rather write about me dancing on a table, which I've never done.

Bhagavad Gita

Neither by study of the Vedas, nor by austerity, nor by charity, nor by ritual, can I be seen in this form as you have seen Me.

Dennis Quaid

There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.

Elbert Hubbard

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

Eduardo Galeano

Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.

Nihad Awad

I have a feeling he's collected hundreds of thousands if not millions from people who need the money the most. He prayed on people with good hearts and good will. To give to charity to help the needy; it's not only part of the human nature, it's part of the faith.

Daniel Borochoff

If they can't demonstrate they're using it for research purposes, or if they can't show that they're turning a profit and generating revenue for the charity, then it is highly questionable and doesn't look like something a charity should be doing.

Bill Ryan

If they knew that this money was charity money for hurricane relief, and then took it, that makes them kind of a low-life.