Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thia Megia

Our lack of perfection should remind us that no one has the right to judge other's worth.

Therese of Lisieux

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

Terry Tempest Williams

Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.

Terry Pratchett

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Terry Pratchett

I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

Terry Crews

You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections.

Terence McKenna

Time will perfect matter.

Terence McKenna

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

Temple Grandin

People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

Shunryu Suzuki

To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.

Shunryu Suzuki

Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.

Shunryu Suzuki

Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort.

Larry Clark

I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward. It skews it a bit and makes it more interesting.

Larry David

All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.

Lactantius

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.

Lactantius

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

Marcus Aurelius

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

Marc Jacobs

I am a perfect being in a perfect world.

Thomas a Kempis

Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you.

Sandra Cisneros

There's no perfect place, there's no wonderful utopia.

Samuel Johnson

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Samuel Johnson

The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener is necessary to the accommodation of all those who desire to be confirmed in the opinion of their own wisdom: a patient listener, however, is not always to be had; the present age, whatever age is present, is so vitiated and disordered, that young people are readier to talk than to attend, and good counsel is only thrown away upon those who are full of their own perfections.

Sam Claflin

The reason I'm an actor is because I'll never be able to be perfect.

Roxane Gay

So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.

Rowan Atkinson

But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied.

Robert M. Pirsig

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Walt Kelly

The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.