Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Merton

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

Thomas Merton

Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.

Thomas Carlyle

For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Thomas Carlyle

Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

Tony Judt

If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.

Tony Evans

God's timing is always perfect. Trust His delays. He's got you.

Tony Evans

The Proverbs 31 woman is not the model of a perfect woman. She is the model of a committed woman under God.

Tom Shippey

While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.

Steven Biko

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

Steve McQueen

The person is being confrontational.

Steve Martin

It is the perfect wrong time for Jeremy to do to Mirabelle what she had done to him - call him up for a quick fix - because;, in a sense, she is now betrothed. Her first date with someone who treated her well obligates her to faithfulness, at least until the relationship is explored.

Steve Martin

Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.

Steve Camp

We're not called to perfection but to faithfulness. Sinlessness in this life isn't possible, but obedience unto godliness is. Sanctification.

Steve Carell

You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else.

Stephen Hawking

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist

Stephen Hawking

The universe doesn't allow perfection.

Stephen King

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

Stellan Skarsgard

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

Stendhal

I call 'crystallization' that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

Stanislav Grof

This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

Sigmund Freud

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

Shepard Smith

That is all the perspective you need!

Shelley Long

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.

Shawn Johnson

Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough.

Shaun White

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

Shaun White

Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.

Serj Tankian

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Scott Wolf

I see myself as the same person as I was, as I am now.

Scott Westerfeld

What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

Steven Pressfield

We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous.

Steven Pinker

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

Steven Pinker

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

Steven Pinker

We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.