Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Crabbe

Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state-- Though poor myself, I know the fortunate: First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence Good fortune comes--and this is sterling sense: Then perseverance, never to decline The chase of riches till the prey is thine; And firmness never to be drawn away By any passion from that noble prey-- By love, ambition, study, travel, fame, Or the vain hope that lives upon a name.

George Clooney

I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.

George Clooney

If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.

Gayle Forman

He can't possibly live up to the person you've built him to be

Sean Hannity

All right, Shep, I want to get some perspective here ...

Edward de Bono

When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.

Edward de Bono

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Edward de Bono

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Edward Bach

All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.

Edward Bach

Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality.

Hoda Kotb

Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.

Hermann Hesse

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Hermann Hesse

Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.

Hermann Hesse

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

Henry Van Dyke

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You would attain to the divine perfection.

Joseph Addison

The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?

Joseph Addison

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Joseph Addison

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.

Jose Saramago

Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

Jonny Wilkinson

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

Jonny Greenwood

But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

Jonathan Stroud

What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?

Jonathan Tropper

Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right.

Kelli O'Hara

Sometimes I'm considered, I guess, a subtle actor. Maybe I'm less of a showman and more just trying to tell the story. I don't know what the perception is. I just want to tell the story so the story as a whole works as opposed to just making sure that I work.

Keke Palmer

I've always been who I've been. I've always been this person.

Kurt Cobain

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

Kevyn Aucoin

My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.

Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up.