Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Warren

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

Rick Warren

If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.

Rick Warren

There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him.

Trot Nixon

That's what perseverance is. You go through some tough times and you fight through it. And now, it's over. It's over.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

Paramahansa Yogananda

I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.

Ovid

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Oscar Pistorius

It's impossible to make everyone happy. Some will choose to see the negative. None is perfect but find a way of loving them perfectly!

Peter Greenaway

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet.

Pauline Kael

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

Pauline Kael

Great movies are rarely perfect movies.

Pauline Kael

I am mystified. I know only one person who voted for Nixon.

Paul von Hindenburg

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

Paul Wellstone

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

Mary Pipher

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

Mary Oliver

Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?

Mary Douglas

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.

Martin Buber

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

Martin Buber

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

Martin Amis

Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is...to impress your personality on the road.

Martin Amis

Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.

Martin Amis

Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life.

Pope Benedict XVI

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

Pope John Paul II

Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.

Pink

Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever ever feel like you're less than, less than perfect.

Philip Massinger

Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.

Pope Francis

Christ comes among us at Christmas: it is the perfect time for a personal encounter with the Lord.

Pope Francis

Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.

Rachel Caine

And somewhere in heaven, Versace sheds a single, perfect tear.