Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nora Roberts

Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize." "I know. If it wasn't for that, you'd be perfect.

Nikolai Gogol

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

Nikola Tesla

Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe.

Nicolaus Copernicus

In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being articulated, but whole and complete in itself; or because it is the most capacious and therefore best suited for that which is to contain and preserve all things.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

Mireille Enos

I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person.

Miranda Lambert

Be confident and comfortable with yourself. If you know us, we are definitely not shy, and never try to be anything we are not. No matter what anyone tells you, you are perfect, just the way you are.

Miranda July

The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.

Mignon McLaughlin

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

Mignon McLaughlin

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

John Wooden

Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

John Wooden

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

John Ruskin

Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

John Ruskin

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

John Ruskin

Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.

John Ruskin

Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.

John Ruskin

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

Matthew Arnold

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

Matthew Arnold

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Meg Rosoff

If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.

Meg Cabot

Some people can seem perfect... everything about them can, on paper, be just right. Until you get to know them. Really know them. Then you find out, in the end, while they might be perfect to every one else, they just aren't right for you.

Meg Cabot

But once I'd come up with it, I realized it really was the perfect plan. Instead of waiting for Maria to come to me, I was simply going to go to her and, well... Send her back to where she came. Or reduce her to a mound of quivering gelatinous goo. Whichever came first.

May-Britt Moser

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don’t really know what the final result will be before you have it.

Marina Abramovic

It's okay that we're not perfect. It's okay that we all have problems. It's okay to cry, to show emotions.

Patricia Hewitt

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

Patricia Briggs

We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are

P. J. O'Rourke

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

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.

Mary E. Pearson

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

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.