Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oswald Chambers

I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God’s purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

Oswald Chambers

Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.

Oswald Chambers

God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

Paul Samuelson

Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.

Paul Arden

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

Patrick Henry

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

Pat Benatar

I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.

Pat Conroy

…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.

Julia Jones

No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

Julia Roberts

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.

Julia Roberts

I didn't know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept glued to the pursuit. I was the biggest fool in town, but ultimately I was the biggest fool in town with a job.

Nelson DeMille

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

Rabih Alameddine

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.

Nhat Hanh

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

Nhat Hanh

A bodhisattva doesn't have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other people is a bodhisattva. We are all bodhisattvas, doing our best.

Nick Cannon

I always say that candy is the perfect studio food - it keeps your energy going.

Noam Chomsky

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

Mike Nichols

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

Mike Pence

Donald Trump is a charismatic personality bigger than life.

John Ashbery

A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.

Joe Strummer

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Joe Murray

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

Jodi Picoult

You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.

Jodi Picoult

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

Jodi Picoult

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

Jodi Picoult

How far can a person go... and still live with himself.

Jodi Picoult

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

Jodi Picoult

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

Jodi Picoult

This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.

Jodi Picoult

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

John Green

Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

John Green

Caroline is no longer sufffering from personhood.