Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.

John Green

Because no one thought she was a person, she had no one to really talk to.

John Green

He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasn;t your fairytale prince charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes,but i liked him best when that stuff fell away.

Patton Oswalt

I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.

Patti Smith

We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.

Patti Smith

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

Patti Smith

Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.

Patanjali

Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.

Pat Summitt

You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.

Pat Summitt

Hard work breeds self-respect.

Pat Robertson

Never place a comma where God has placed a period. God has spoken!

P. D. James

Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.

P. J. O'Rourke

Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free— indeed, sanctimonious— way for progressives to be racists.

Mark Twain

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

Mary Renault

But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

Mary Baker Eddy

The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.

Marshall Field

Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity. 5. The worth of character. 6. The power of kindness. 7. The influence of example. 8. The obligation of duty. 9. The wisdom of economy. 10. The virtue of patience. 11. The improvement of talent. 12. The joy of originating.

Mario Van Peebles

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

Marion Bartoli

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

Mario Vargas Llosa

No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.

Nikki Reed

If we don't start acknowledging our correct position as nothing more than a part of the planet as opposed to this perception that we're superior, then we won't have it much longer. We're facing a very turbulent, war-torn, drought-ridden existence for future generations unless we act now.

Nikki Sixx

Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

Nicole Williams

You can’t be friends with the person you were meant to spent your life with

Nicole Polizzi

I feel like today should be a perfect Meatball day... Let's just get wastey-pants!

Nicki Minaj

I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect.

Nick Hornby

One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.

Marva Collins

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.

Marvin J. Ashton

Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.

Marvin J. Ashton

Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect. We each have failings that aren't terribly difficult to detect especially if that is the aim.

Mark Twain

No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

Nicholas Sparks

I'm not perfect, either. In the end, it's only God's judgement that matters, and I've learned enough to know that no one can presume to know the will of God.

Nicholas Sparks

It made perfect sense, and at the same time nothing seemed to.