Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Oyeyemi

I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.

Helen Reddy

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

Helen Rowland

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

Hilary Duff

You're so convinced you'll disappoint people if you show them that you're not perfect. You don't realize you are perfect. Your imperfections are what make you perfect. They make you you. That's what people love. It's what I love too.

Henry Ward Beecher

When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.

Henry James

Excellence does not require perfection.

Helena Bonham Carter

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

John Krasinski

The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

Kesha

I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

Jonathan Swift

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

Jonathan Sacks

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

Napoleon Hill

Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.

Oscar de la Renta

The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times.

Orson Welles

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

Olivia De Havilland

I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

O. Henry

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

Mason Cooley

The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.

Mason Cooley

Few things are worth doing perfectly.

Michael Gove

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

Michael Chabon

... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.

Mia Wasikowska

I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal.

Mencius

All things are complete within ourselves.

Mencius

All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.

Michael Josephson

I am not and never will be perfect. I am not always as honest, respectful, responsible, fair or as kind as I should be. All I can do is what I should do: strive every day, with every decision to be the best person I can be. I don’t expect to be perfect but I know I can be better.

Martha Stewart

I'm a maniacal perfectionist.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.

Theodore Roosevelt

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

Mallory Ortberg

Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment.

Malik Bendjelloul

The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.

Mahatma Gandhi

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.