Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brother Lawrence

The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.

Edmund Husserl

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

Edmund Burke

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

Edmund Burke

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

Eckhart Tolle

Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

George Shearing

Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.

Anne Lamott

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Andy Pettitte

It kills me when I make a bad pitch...I want to be perfect out there.

America Ferrera

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don’t speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker

Amanda Palmer

You're not going to be perfect, you're not going to stop berating yourself, you're not going to stop the comparisons, you're not going to stop the judgment, but you can become evermore mindful of it, and that has to be good enough.

Annie Lennox

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

Annie Dillard

Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection.

D. H. Lawrence

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

D. H. Lawrence

The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.

David Foster Wallace

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

Dylan O'Brien

The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again.

Doug Stanhope

I'm in a perfect position. I don't want to be more famous and I can't lose sponsors, so I can say anything I want.

Douglas Adams

Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.

Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.

Donald Kennedy

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

Cristiano Ronaldo

If I can have the chance to be the best ever, then that would be perfect.

Claire McCaskill

If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

Daniel Pinkwater

Looking back over my life so far I am able to remember specific days that were perfect. These tend to be days, and parts of days, in which nothing in particular happened, except that I was utterly happy.

Dan Harmon

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

Dan Harmon

You'll be perfect when you're dead

Andre Gide

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

Ann Romney

It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.

Angela Bettis

I really dont feel like Im in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I dont expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

Anais Nin

Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.

Anais Nin

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

Anais Nin

In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.

Amanda Lindhout

Because that’s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: There’s a freeze-frame instant of total fulfillment, when every expectation has been met and the world is perfect.