Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sri Aurobindo

Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.

Sri Chinmoy

What we call our joy, God calls our perfection. Each human being has come into the world with the message of perfection. Each human being will one day realize the highest Truth. Each human being is destined to be fulfilled. It is the birthright of our soul.

Sri Chinmoy

There is only one perfect road and that road is ahead of you, always ahead of you.

Sri Chinmoy

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

Sri Chinmoy

Now is the time to make good use of time. Today is the day to begin a perfect day.

Roger Rosenblatt

One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is perfect in itself, verifies that individuals own potential perfection.

Rupert Murdoch

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

Rush Limbaugh

It's just that that feels discriminatory to me, "the ideal woman." The concept of ideal is fleeting. It's like "perfect." There's no such thing.

Ray Kroc

You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.

Raul Castro

I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.

Randy Bachman

We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

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.

Walt Disney

I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.

Virginie LeDoyen

DiCaprio's life is the perfect example of how not to be. I would not wish his life on anybody.

Voltaire

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

Voltaire

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

Voltaire

Perfect is the enemy of good.

Voltaire

A good imitation is the most perfect originality

William Pollard

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

William Hurt

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

Walter Russell

My today is what I will to make it. I will to make it perfect...

Walter Savage Landor

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

Yo-Yo Ma

Perfection is not very communicative

Winston Churchill

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

Winston Churchill

Perfectionism spells paralysis.

Willie Garson

Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity.

William S. Burroughs

Too perfect to be sexually attractive.

William S. Burroughs

The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

William Law

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.