Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter O'Toole

It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.

Phyllis George

My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain.

Rabindranath Tagore

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

Queen Latifah

There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

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

You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.

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.

Stephanie Klein

Don't be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You're not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don't punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You'll bounce back eventually. You'll make up for it.

Susie Orbach

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

Suzanne Collins

Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say. "Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he says. "Look at the courage Peeta just displayed!" It's all I can do not to slap him.

Suzanne Collins

it is a perfect weapon

Taylor Swift

I realized that I have very long arms so I can take the perfect arm-length picture with fans

Starhawk

In the Craft the Goddess is not omnipotent. The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control.

Stan Lee

No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.

Taylor Swift

Love has absolutely no pattern, and no one will ever be perfect.

Stanley Kunitz

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

Stanley Kubrick

You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

Soren Kierkegaard

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

Stephen Strasburg

I don’t need to go out there and trick guys, and I don’t need to go out there and be perfect. I've just got to attack the strike zone, let my stuff work and get much better results that way.

Stephenie Meyer

dont be afraid", i murmured. "We belong together." I was abruptly overwhelmed by th truth of my own words. This moment was so perfect, there was no way to boubt it. His arms wrapped around me, holding me against him...It felt like every nerve ending in my body was a live wire. "Forever," he agreed.

Stephenie Meyer

And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever.

Stephenie Meyer

I was perfect- not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place

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.