Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brigham Young

We are doing well, notwithstanding all our failings and weaknesses; but the Lord would like to have us a little more diligent; he would like us to cleave a little more closely to the things of his kingdom, have more of his Spirit, and know more of him and of one another, that complete and perfect confidence can be restored.

Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.

We don't have to be perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning values with actions.

Bonnie Hammer

World Screen is a great resource-the perfect one-stop guide to what matters most in global entertainment.

Barbara Bush

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

Aphra Behn

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Bruce Lee

I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

Brother Lawrence

The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.

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.

Bobbi Brown

With the right foundation, any woman can look like she naturally has even, perfect skin

Bobby Bragan

All you nerds out there (me included) - don't always rely on stats for the perfect answer.

Bill Phillips

If you wait until everything in your life is perfect before you begin something challenging and new, you'll be waiting forever. The best time is NOW.

Bill Johnson

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

Beyonce Knowles

Perfection is a disease of a nation.

Beyonce Knowles

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

Bernie Mac

I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.

Edith Schaeffer

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

Daymond John

It will never be a perfect time, you can only make time perfect.

David Henry Hwang

I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a handicapped restroom that said Deformed Mans Toilet, that kind of thing.

David Hume

What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity.

David Brainerd

God plans all perfect combinations.

Beatrix Potter

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Baroness Orczy

I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

Edna O'Brien

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

Bobby Flay

I love working with big flavors like chiles and smoke. Honey is perfect for softening the edges, mellowing them out a bit. I put it in everything - vinaigrettes, soups, stocks, salsas, so I'm always on the hunt for great honey.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.