Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rupert Murdoch

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

Rush Limbaugh

It's just that that feels discriminatory to me, "the ideal woman." The concept of ideal is fleeting. It's like "perfect." There's no such thing.

Thomas Mallon

American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adamss diplomatic successes - bigger than anything presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.

Ray LaMontagne

I'm a private person.

Ray Kroc

You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.

Raul Castro

I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.

Rashida Jones

Control the publics perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

Rashida Jones

I'm terrified of performing live.

Randy Bachman

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.

Randy Bachman

We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.

Thomas Jefferson

To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.

Thomas Jefferson

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Thomas Jefferson

We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us to preserve that liberty which he committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties.

Thomas Jefferson

A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.

Thomas Jefferson

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

Thomas Jefferson

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

Robert Henri

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

Robert Henri

There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

Robert Redford

You’re never going to be the same person you are right now.

Robert E. Lee

Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.

Robert Collier

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

Rob Zombie

The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.

Rob Halford

Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.

Richard Petty

Never put a question mark where God puts a Period

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied.

Robert M. Pirsig

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

Robert M. Pirsig

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Robert E. Lee

There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.

Walt Kelly

The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.

Walt Disney

My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.