Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Adams

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.

Samuel Adams

If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.

T. Harv Eker

The perfect time to start something never arrives START NOW!

T. Harv Eker

Either you're a person who will be stopped, or you are a person who won't be stopped. You choose.

T. D. Jakes

When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective

T. S. Eliot

I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

T. S. Eliot

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

Sydney J. Harris

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Suzanne Somers

Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.

Suzanne Vega

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

Suze Orman

I'd rather make 50 percent of something than 100 percent of nothing.

Susan Sontag

Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.

Susan Sontag

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place.

Susan Sontag

A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.

Taylor Kitsch

I'm an all-or-nothing person.

Taylor Hawkins

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

Kobe Bryant

What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.

Kobe Bryant

What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings

Kobe Bryant

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

Kofi Annan

Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.

Kim Kardashian

People don't understand the pressure on me to look perfect.

Kim Kardashian

It's [her new house] kind of like my relationship. I'm like nurturing it and like spending a lot of time there and making sure that everything is perfect. It's like my new boyfriend.

Kevin Jorgeson

I'm learning new levels of patience, perseverance and desire,

Kevin Keegan

I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection.

Kevin Hart

There's so much you can achieve with a launching pad like stand-up comedy. You can literally go from acting to hosting to being a personality.

Kevin Hart

I'm not the most attractive fella. I'm not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

Kent Nerburn

In a perfect world perhaps we would all see more clearly. But this is not a perfect world, and it is enough to hope that each of us will share our talents, and find the balance between greed and benevolence that will allow us to live and thrive and help the world around us grow.

Kenneth Burke

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

Kelly Ripa

I had a picture-perfect childhood.

Katy Perry

I love those documentaries where everyone is fabulous and always perfect.

Katy Perry

You can't be a full tranny every day of the week that's an exaggerated part of my personality.

Katy Perry

I can assure you, nothing in my performance will be deflated