Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas S. Monson

Love thy neighbor is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection.

Thomas S. Monson

We've all felt anger. It can come when things don't turn out the way we want. It might be a reaction to something which is said of us or to us. We may experience it when people don't behave the way we want them to behave. Perhaps it comes when we have to wait for something longer than we expected. We might feel angry when others can't see things from our perspective. There seem to be countless possible reasons for anger….If we desire to have a proper spirit with us at all times, we must choose to refrain from becoming angry.

Robert Klein

[T]he Super Bowl, the quintessential American creation. A dizzying mélange of brilliant entrepreneurship in an atmosphere of intense competition. It is the perfect show for the most intensely competitive culture in this solar system.

Robert Harris

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

Vinod Khosla

In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.

Viswanathan Anand

You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch.

Walt Whitman

All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

Walt Whitman

There will never be any more perfection than there is now.

Walt Whitman

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

Walt Whitman

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

Walt Whitman

There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now; And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.

Walt Whitman

Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Saul Bellow

Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.

Sarah Dessen

Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.

Sarah Dessen

How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.

Sarah Dessen

It took a lot of work to be perfect.

Sarah Dessen

I knew that it wouldn’t last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.

Sarah Dessen

The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often.

Sarah Dessen

It was just perfect, just right all at once.

Sarah Dessen

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

Sandra Day O'Connor

The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.

Roseanne Barr

Anyone with a show on T.V. will tell you it's backbreaking work. And if you have a big personality, which I have, and you're a perfectionist, there's going to be head-butting.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

Where there's a will there's a dead person.

Ronnie Wood

I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.

Rohinton Mistry

There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

Roger Waters

Can't you see it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shillings and pence, can't you see it all; makes perfect sense

Roger Ebert

Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.

Rod Paige

To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that last a lifetime: critical analysis skills, the ability to deal with ambiguity and to solve problems, perseverance and a drive for excellence. Moreover, the creative skills children develop through the arts carry them toward new ideas, new experiences, and new challenges, not to mention personal satisfaction. This is the intrinsic value of the arts, and it cannot be overestimated.

Robin Morgan

Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.

Robin McKinley

I said with perfect honest, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.

Robert Wise

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

Roberto Assagioli

Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.