Famous Quotes & Sayings

Melanie Laurent

I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.

Michel de Montaigne

It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.

Michel de Montaigne

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

Michel de Montaigne

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

Michel de Montaigne

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.

Michael Sandel

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

Michael Reagan

I didn't feel I belonged in so perfect a family.

Michael Keaton

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

Markus Zusak

Something I'd like to be perfect at? ... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you.

Mark Twain

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

Mark Twain

That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.

Mark Twain

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

Marianne Williamson

If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.

Marilyn Ferguson

The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.

Marian Wright Edelman

Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.

Marian Wright Edelman

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

Marian Wright Edelman

None of the candidates are ever perfect, ok? Then you have to get them in there and you have to hold them accountable. You have to make noises.

Margot Fonteyn

I’ve found the perfect partner.

Martin Kippenberger

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward!

Mark Victor Hansen

Liabilities are just assets in hiding.

Mark Victor Hansen

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.

Mark Victor Hansen

Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance.

Mark Krikorian

There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration.

Mark Hoppus

Hard work, studying and perseverance will get you no where in life......it's all about kissing ass

Mikhail Gorbachev

Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you've been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought... There has to be a different approach... Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed.

Miguel de Unamuno

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

Nicholas Brendon

I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.

Mireille Guiliano

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.

R. C. Sproul

People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.

R. C. Sproul

Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

R. C. Sproul

We persevere because we are preserved by our High Priest's intercession.

Priyanka Chopra

I know I'm flawed - but perfect is boring anyway! Flawed is good!