Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.

Martin Sheen

People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.

Leonardo da Vinci

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

Laura Miller

There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn’t all that perfect.

Laura Miller

Perfect love was that kind of love that made no sense but made everything else make sense somehow. It was raw and unscripted, turbulent and slightly unpredictable.

Laura Lippman

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

Lance Armstrong

The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.

Lisa Murkowski

I'm excited about what I have to offer. Not only a little bit of youth, but a different perspective as a woman.

John Stuart Mill

I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.

John Rawls

Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.

James Joyce

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

James Joyce

And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

James Richardson

How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.

James Russell Lowell

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

James Russell Lowell

Endurance is the crowning quality...

James Purefoy

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

James Redfield

...The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty.

Laurence J. Peter

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

Laurence Sterne

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.

Laura Esquivel

The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.

Lamar Odom

Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

Lamar Odom

Sometimes I still don't know if I'm prepared to go through the entire season, dealing with the different personalities, the crowds, the politics.

Liev Schreiber

Don't hit people; don't let it get you too angry; remember that everything you do can and will be used against you. And take a breath and have some perspective.

Libba Bray

You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.

Libba Bray

Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

Gary Chapman

The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.

Friedrich Engels

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

Friedrich Schiller

We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.

Jon Meacham

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Jon Landau

Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.

Jon Krakauer

Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.