Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

Jillian Michaels

Nobody is perfect, so get over the fear of being or doing everything perfectly. Besides perfect is boring.

Jessica Lange

Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.

Jessica Lange

I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

Jeremy Bentham

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Esther Hicks

Your natural instinct, from your broadest Nonphysical perspective, is to know your power. Fear is a vibration when you feel powerless. Your natural instinctual Nonphysical vibration is to know your worthiness, know your rightness, know your value. And the feeling of fear is always when you are contradicting that thought.

Esther Hicks

Every emotion, from despair all of the way up to ecstasy; from complete Connection to who-you-really-are, all the way to pinching yourself off pretty severely, all of those emotions are about your perception of freedom, or your perception of bondage—every one of them.

Esther Hicks

When you are in vibrational harmony, your body produces whatever it needs to remain in perfect balance.

Esther Hicks

Being happy is a very personal thing-and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.

Esther Hicks

Where you now stand is a result of thoughts and feelings that you have offered before, but where you are going is a result of your perspective of where you now stand.

Erno Rubik

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.

Ernst Haas

I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures.

Etta James

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

Erin O'Connor

How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?

Erin Heatherton

Sexiness is all about your personality, being genuine and confident, and being a good person.

Erin Heatherton

Perfection is really boring!

Florence Scovel Shinn

Today is a day of completion; I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease.

Florence Scovel Shinn

It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith.

Florence King

A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.

Flannery O'Connor

The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.

Henry Mintzberg

Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving.

Henry Miller

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

Henry Miller

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Henry Miller

The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these things at once and the same time.

Henri Bergson

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

Henri Frederic Amiel

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

Helen Keller

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

Helen Keller

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

Cassandra Clare

Alec looked horrified, as if she'd asked him to put on a tutu and execute a perfect pirouette.

George Eliot

... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

Gottfried Leibniz

God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.