Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

Plautus

Worthy things happen to the worthy.

Plato

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Plato

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

Plato

Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Phil Knight

Perception can be changed

Mary E. Pearson

I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead.

Mary E. Pearson

When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.

Martin Sheen

People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.

Leonardo da Vinci

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

Philip Sidney

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Philip James Bailey

None but God can fill the perfect whole.

Pharrell Williams

I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.

Peter Drucker

Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.

Peter Drucker

There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting priorities. The best strategic decision is only an approximation - and a risk.

Paulo Coelho

Perseverance brings good luck.

Paulo Coelho

Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.

Paulo Coelho

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

Paulo Coelho

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be.

Marlene Dietrich

I'm not an actress, I'm a personality.

Marisha Pessl

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

Marissa Mayer

To me, the future is personalization .

Mariska Hargitay

Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.

Marjane Satrapi

You never have these moments that, you know, are always perfect. Always something happens.

Mariano Rivera

I'm not used to seeing the ball go wherever she wants. As a pitcher, I like to be - I don't want to say perfect, but I want to know what the ball is going to do.

Marianne Moore

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Mariah Carey

We've been expected to be perfect but we aren't. We're still human.

Meghan Trainor

If you got beauty, beauty, just raise em up. Cause every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.

Megan McCafferty

We are perfect in our imperfection.

Megan Fox

I'm very confident in how I project my personality.

MC Hammer

Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.

Max Muller

All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,-real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.