Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christina Ricci

To be honest, I don't usually do very much research, especially if I'm working with a director who also wrote the screenplay. They've usually done a tonne of research. And they'll tell you about it from their perspective which is better than doing your own research...

Christina Ricci

People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

Christina Aguilera

You can never be too perfect, too thin, too curvy. I'm very confident and happy with my body.

Christina Aguilera

I have always been one to encourage perseverance.

Christian Dior

Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress.

Christian Louboutin

For me, everyone has many personas.

Christian Louboutin

Nothing needs to be perfect to be good, and no one should need to feel perfect to feel right

Chris Robinson

What I had to learn was, that I'm responsible for my perception of things.

Without deep personal transformation, collective transformation is not possible.

Chris Gardner

(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.

Gilbert Gottfried

Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny.

Gerard Way

It's for the hamster that I'm gonna buy! This is so perfect! (after opening a hamster wheel at Christmas)

Gerard Way

I learned to see beauty in everything and ugliness in everything. I developed a very honest perspective.

Harry Hay

With the full realization that, in order to earn for ourselves any place in the sun, we must with perseverance and self-discipline work collectively for the full first-class citizenship participation of Minorities everywhere, including ourselves.

Hans Kung

A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.

George Washington

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.

George Washington

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

George Washington

And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.

George Orwell

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

George Muller

Here is the great secret of success. Work with all your might; but trust not in the least in your work. Pray with all your might for the blessing of God; but work, at the same time, with all diligence, with all patience, with all perseverance. Pray then, and work. Work and pray. And still again pray, and then work. And so on all the days of your life. The result will surely be, abundant blessing. Whether you see much fruit or little fruit, such kind of service will be blessed...

George Meredith

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

G. M. Trevelyan

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

John Ruskin

Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

John Ruskin

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

John Ruskin

Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.

John Ruskin

Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.

John Ruskin

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

John Quincy Adams

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.

John Owen

There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience.

John Owen

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

John Milton

God made thee perfect, not immutable.