Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

Lin Yutang

I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.

Les Claypool

Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.

Les Dawson

How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.

Les Brown

Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan.

Les Brown

Regardless of what challenge you are facing right now, know that it has not come to stay. It has come to pass. During these times, do what you can with what you have, and ask for help if needed. Most importantly, never surrender. Put things in perspective. Take care of yourself. Find ways to replenish your energy, strengthen your faith and fortify yourself from the inside out.

Laurie David

Everybody has to look at his or her own footprint and do the best they can. It's not about being perfect, it's about doing something. If we're looking for perfection, we'll never, ever get there.

Laurie Anderson

They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

LaToya London

Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.

L. Ron Hubbard

Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.

Thomas Aquinas

The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

Thomas Aquinas

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

Thomas Aquinas

So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

Thomas Aquinas

Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

Thomas Aquinas

There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.

Thomas Aquinas

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

Thia Megia

Our lack of perfection should remind us that no one has the right to judge other's worth.

Therese of Lisieux

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

Terry Tempest Williams

Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.

Terry Tempest Williams

Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social change. In a voiced community, we all flourish. But it's not easy. Revolutionary patience and persistence is required. It can be messy, it is unpredictable, and change, especially structural change takes time - time and leadership and the will of an engaged community. What is needed? In a word, courage.

Terry Pratchett

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Terry Pratchett

I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

Terry Crews

You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections.

Terrence Howard

Having gandchildren you see the world through much broader perspectives. And you're more aware of your actions your thoughts and how it will affect your family. And the families around your family. You have to be a lot more careful. But you also relax a little bit. Because, you know, you've done your duty. I've reproduced and my reproductions have reproduced.

Terence McKenna

Time will perfect matter.

Terence McKenna

LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.

Terence McKenna

The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality..

Terence McKenna

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

Temple Grandin

People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.