Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

Sydney J. Harris

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Suzanne Somers

Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.

Suzanne Vega

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

Suze Orman

I'd rather make 50 percent of something than 100 percent of nothing.

Susan Sontag

Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.

Susan Sontag

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place.

Susan Sontag

A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.

Taylor Kitsch

I'm an all-or-nothing person.

Taylor Hawkins

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

Troy Glaus

You're not always going to be perfect, but I always try to be.

Troy Polamalu

All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.

Truman Capote

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.