Famous Quotes & Sayings

George F. Kennan

Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.

Fernando Pessoa

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

Fernando Pessoa

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

Ferdinand Foch

One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.

Felicity Jones

It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.

Felix Baumgartner

I'm more a competitive person.

Fay Weldon

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

Fannie Hurst

Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.

Faith Hill

I'm such a happy, easygoing person.

Francis Quarles

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

Francis Chan

The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.

Francis Bacon

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

Francis Bacon

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

I usually suggest a perennial and something that stays evergreen.

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Vince Carter

Impressive. With a perfect game, you have a chance.

Warrick Dunn

I'm probably about 90 percent. I really don't have pain, but I'm not 100 percent confident.

John Reed

I'm persuaded it can work. Our sense is it's well worth doing,

Shelley Hennig

I'm personally more of a low-maintenance type of person. I want things to be easy and quick, especially when it comes to getting dressed.

I'm only going to play if I'm 100 percent fit,

Erin O'Connor

How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?

Erin Heatherton

Sexiness is all about your personality, being genuine and confident, and being a good person.

Erin Heatherton

Perfection is really boring!

Florence Scovel Shinn

Today is a day of completion; I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease.

Florence Scovel Shinn

It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith.

Florence King

A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.

Flannery O'Connor

The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.

Henry Mintzberg

Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving.

Henry Miller

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

Henry Miller

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Henry Miller

The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these things at once and the same time.

Henri Bergson

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.