Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)

Richard Baxter

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

Willie Garson

Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity.

Tullian Tchividjian

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

Tullian Tchividjian

There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.

Wayne Dyer

You are the Beloved, you are the Divine, you are a creation that is made into perfection.

Joseph Addison

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.

Jonny Wilkinson

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

There exists no more democratic institution than the market

Eric Ries

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

Kyle Chandler

I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No institution will be better than the institutor.

Paul Tillich

Every institution is inherently demonic.

Paddy Ashdown

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

David Cameron

Over the longer term, the institutions and powers of the EU will continue to expand and certain policymaking powers, heretofore vested in the member states, will be delegated or transferred to, or pooled and shared with EU institutions. As a result, the sovereignty of the member states will increasingly be eroded.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

Dr. Roberts

He responds to stimuli and that's good. He's still critically ill, in intensive care, he suffered a collapsed lung.

Ed Regan

In the past, we've been skeptical about (collaboration). But we felt that the industry is on the threshold of collapse if something doesn't get done soon. This is one way to resolve the problem.

Mary Farrell

I knew that in the past that these financial panics had often triggered far worse consequences. I was actually less concerned about the market than the potential for collapse of the world financial system.

Peter Hain

the collapse in external and internal confidence would lead to a more serious situation.

Rex Tillerson

You know, oil prices from 2007, on the strength of a very robust global economy and a very robust emerging China, many of you will recall, ramped up to near $150 a barrel. Then we had the financial - U.S. financial collapse. Oil prices collapsed all the way down to $40 a barrel.

Paul Cooper

The infrastructure market has collapsed and margins have fallen from 20 percent to 4 percent,

Warren Zinn

I wanted to be able to watch world history in the making. In less than two years, I was able to witness the collapse of two regimes. It's cool to open a world almanac and know that I was a part of history.

John Burnside

It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.