Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hollis Stacy

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

Ignatius of Loyola

May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

Ian Bogost

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

Ian Bogost

The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It's rather that the activity is looking outside of yourself.

Hugh Prather

Perfectionism is slow death.

Hugo Chavez

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

Howard Warren Buffett

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.

Horace

There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

Guy Berryman

We have very similar brains. But they come out in different personalities.

Gottfried Leibniz

God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.

Gottfried Leibniz

I don't say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.

Gottfried Leibniz

The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.

Gottfried Leibniz

For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but yet not necessary, and which do not really exist. From this it follows that a reason that always forces a free mind to choose one thing over another (whether that reason derives from the perfection of a thing, as it does in God, or from our imperfection) does not eliminate our freedom.

Gillian Flynn

Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.

Gillian Flynn

I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.

Gillian Jacobs

I try to have a very well-rounded group of friends that did a lot of different things and weren't just performers. Because I feel like there's both less feeling of competitiveness, and it put my own career in perspective.

A fragrance always combines femininity and sensuality.

Giancarlo Esposito

I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

George Bernard Shaw

Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

George Bernard Shaw

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

George Bernard Shaw

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

Galileo Galilei

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Fred Durst

Imperfections make someone perfect to me.

Fred Durst

It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.

Franz Kafka

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

Erich Fromm

If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.

Erica Jong

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Eric Cantor

In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.

Eric Byrnes

I'm happy to see the union come together. We really need to clear up the public perception of what's going on.

Act like the person you conceive yourself to be.