Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Scott Westerfeld

What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

Steven Pinker

We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.

Sue Grafton

When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.

Sue Monk Kidd

The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as it truly is, enormous, appalling, devastating. You see the great sinkholes it makes in people and the harrowing lengths to which love will go to fill them.

Robert Browning

Faultless to a fault.

T. Harv Eker

The perfect time to start something never arrives START NOW!

T. S. Eliot

I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

T. S. Eliot

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

Suzanne Somers

Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.

Susan Sontag

Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.

Taylor Hawkins

I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.

Troy Glaus

You're not always going to be perfect, but I always try to be.

Truman Capote

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

Rebecca Solnit

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.

Rick Yancey

Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.

Rick Warren

A ministry doesn't have to be perfect for God to use and bless it.

Rick Warren

The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.

Rick Warren

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

Rick Warren

If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

Tony Snow

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

Tony Snow

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

Veronica Roth

It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.

Vince Vaughn

I'm not perfect, but who are we kidding? Neither are you. And you wanna know what? I dig it!

Vince Lombardi

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

Vince Lombardi

Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

Robert Graves

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Stockwell Day

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

Sonny Rollins

We have to make ourselves as perfect as we can.