Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Harvey

There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

William Hazlitt

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

William Hazlitt

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

William Hazlitt

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Don't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them

Walter Pater

The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts

Willa Cather

William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.

Will Smith

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

Warren Buffett

There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.

Vladimir Horowitz

Perfection itself is imperfection.

Vivienne Westwood

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.

Virginia Woolf

All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.

William Blake

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

Werner Erhard

The world is perfect the way it is.

Werner Herzog

Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.

Wayne White

I'm a perfectionist I guess. Everyone has to love me.

Wayne White

The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.

Samuel Smiles

Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.

Samuel Richardson

The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.

Samuel Beckett

Try again. Fail again. Try better.

Samuel Dash

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

Samuel Beckett

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

Salmon P. Chase

What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

Salvador Dali

Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.

Salman Rushdie

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

Salman Rushdie

There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

Salman Rushdie

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

Ryan Stiles

I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.

Ryan Robbins

Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it.

Rudolf Steiner

When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.

Wesley Morris

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

Wesley Snipes

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.