Famous Quotes & Sayings

Les Claypool

Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.

Les Dawson

How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.

Les Brown

Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan.

Les Brown

Regardless of what challenge you are facing right now, know that it has not come to stay. It has come to pass. During these times, do what you can with what you have, and ask for help if needed. Most importantly, never surrender. Put things in perspective. Take care of yourself. Find ways to replenish your energy, strengthen your faith and fortify yourself from the inside out.

Laurie David

Everybody has to look at his or her own footprint and do the best they can. It's not about being perfect, it's about doing something. If we're looking for perfection, we'll never, ever get there.

Laurie Anderson

They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

LaToya London

Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.

L. Ron Hubbard

Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.

Thomas Aquinas

The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

Thomas Aquinas

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

Thomas Aquinas

So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

Thomas Aquinas

Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

Thomas Aquinas

There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.

Thomas Aquinas

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

Thom Yorke

I have multiple personalities, but, being a fairly uncreative individual, they are all Thom Yorke.

Thia Megia

Our lack of perfection should remind us that no one has the right to judge other's worth.

Therese of Lisieux

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

Terry Tempest Williams

Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.

Terry Tempest Williams

Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social change. In a voiced community, we all flourish. But it's not easy. Revolutionary patience and persistence is required. It can be messy, it is unpredictable, and change, especially structural change takes time - time and leadership and the will of an engaged community. What is needed? In a word, courage.

Terry Pratchett

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Terry Pratchett

I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

Terry Crews

You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections.

Terrence Howard

Having gandchildren you see the world through much broader perspectives. And you're more aware of your actions your thoughts and how it will affect your family. And the families around your family. You have to be a lot more careful. But you also relax a little bit. Because, you know, you've done your duty. I've reproduced and my reproductions have reproduced.

Terence McKenna

Time will perfect matter.

Terence McKenna

LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.

Tom Reilly

The perception is that -- and I know many of us have heard this anecdotally -- many third and fourth generations of IU families are opting not to go to here because they perceive the quality of IU is going down.

Tom Reed

From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.

Tom Petty

At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

Tom Petty

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

Simone Elkeles

It reminds me of myself - seemingly perfect on the outside but inside is all a mush.

Simone Weil

All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.

Simone Weil

An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.