Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juliet Stevenson

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

John Piper

If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.

John Piper

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

Martin Luther

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

Morton Feldman

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

Mary J. Blige

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

Jodi Picoult

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

John Green

Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

Patti Smith

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

Patanjali

Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.

Mark Twain

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

Nikki Sixx

Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

Ne-Yo

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.

Mstislav Rostropovich

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

Oscar Wilde

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

Liz Phair

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

Margaret Oliphant

All perfection is melancholy.

Michael Jackson

A perfectionist has to take his time,

Michael Cunningham

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

Michel de Montaigne

It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.

Michel de Montaigne

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you've been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought... There has to be a different approach... Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed.

Oliver Goldsmith

The very pink of perfection.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing quite new is perfect.

Leonardo da Vinci

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Oscar Wilde

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Patrice Motsepe

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

Oswald Chambers

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

Laurence Olivier

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

Leigh Hunt

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

Lauren Oliver

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.