Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Henry

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

Pat Benatar

I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.

Pat Conroy

…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.

Julia Jones

No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

Julia Roberts

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.

Julia Roberts

I didn't know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept glued to the pursuit. I was the biggest fool in town, but ultimately I was the biggest fool in town with a job.

Leonard Slatkin

There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.

Leonardo da Vinci

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

Leonardo da Vinci

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

Leonardo da Vinci

Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.

Leonardo da Vinci

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Leonardo da Vinci

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Oscar Wilde

To be premature is to be perfect

Oscar Wilde

I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Patrick Ness

It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.

Patrick Rothfuss

I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.

Patrick Rothfuss

It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.

Patrick Rothfuss

But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.

Patrice Motsepe

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

Patricia Arquette

Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.

Park Geun-hye

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

Oswald Chambers

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

Lev Yilmaz

I always thought that cemeteries gave me some sense of perspective

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

Lev Grossman

His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.

Leon Trotsky

In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.

Laurence Olivier

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

Laurence Olivier

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

Leigh Hunt

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

Leigh Hunt

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

Lauren London

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

Lauren Weisberger

He certainly seems like the perfect guy but none of that matters if he's not the perfect guy for you.