Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Meyer

God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.

Maria Mitchell

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

Maria Shriver

Don't wait until you are perfect to change the world.

Maria Shriver

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.

Patrick Fugit

I'm not a very fast-paced person.

John Piper

If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.

John Piper

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

John Piper

Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.

Martin Mull

Why be influenced by a person when you already are one?

Martin Luther

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

Mark Spitz

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

Mark Teixeira

We can't be perfect all the time and that's okay. In the heat of the battle, in the heat of the moment, you might say things or do things that aren't right, but at the same time, Christ forgives us. Christ will always forgive you.

Nicole Kidman

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

Nick Jonas

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well. I used to be very uptight, but I've learned to loosen up.

Nick Cave

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

Nancy Grace

I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

Nam June Paik

When too perfect, lieber Gott böse.

Morton Feldman

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

Mortimer Adler

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.

Paulo Freire

A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.

Paul Newman

To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.

Paul Farmer

I'm not an austere person.

Paul Feig

In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it can sustain itself.

Masanobu Fukuoka

The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.

Marya Mannes

performance is an act of faith.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

Mary J. Blige

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

Marshall McLuhan

Human perception is literally incarnation.

Mark Helprin

...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.

Mark Haddon

Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

Marisa Tomei

Letting journalism be from the perspective of the journalist. It's usually a no-no, and journalists are encouraged to be completely objective.

Marion Cotillard

I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.

Oswald Chambers

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself.