Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephanie Klein

Don't be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You're not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don't punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You'll bounce back eventually. You'll make up for it.

V. S. Pritchett

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Val Kilmer

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

Val Kilmer

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

Vaclav Havel

Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.

Usher

Success is measured by personal happiness.

Susie Orbach

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

Suzanne Collins

Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say. "Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he says. "Look at the courage Peeta just displayed!" It's all I can do not to slap him.

Suzanne Collins

it is a perfect weapon

Scott Westerfeld

What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

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.

Sue Grafton

When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.

Sue Monk Kidd

The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as it truly is, enormous, appalling, devastating. You see the great sinkholes it makes in people and the harrowing lengths to which love will go to fill them.

Robert Browning

Faultless to a fault.

Rigoberta Menchu

We can only love a person who eats what we eat.

Ricky Schroder

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

Richard Simmons

I don't talk about my personal life, and I don't talk about death.

Richard Armour

Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable

Samora Machel

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

Samuel Alexander

Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.

Samuel Alexander

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

Samuel Adams

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.

Samuel Adams

If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.

T. Harv Eker

The perfect time to start something never arrives START NOW!

T. Harv Eker

Either you're a person who will be stopped, or you are a person who won't be stopped. You choose.

T. D. Jakes

When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective

T. S. Eliot

I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

T. S. Eliot

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,