Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Snow

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

Veronica Roth

I did not know that my entire personality, my entire being, could be discarded as the byproduct of my anatomy. What if I really am just someone with a large prefrontal cortex...and nothing more?

Veronica Roth

Half of bravery is perspective.

Veronica Roth

It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.

Vince Vaughn

I'm not perfect, but who are we kidding? Neither are you. And you wanna know what? I dig it!

Maggie Stiefvater

The thing I was beginning to figure out about Sam and Grace, the thing about Sam not being able to function without her, was that that sort of love only worked when you were sure both people would always be around for each other. If one half of the equation left, or died, or was slightly less perfect in their love, it became the most tragic, pathetic story invented, laughable in its absurdity. Without Grace, Sam was a joke without a punch line.

Maggie Stiefvater

All these perfect days, made of glass Put on the shelf where they can cast perfect shadows that stretch and grow on the imperfect days down below. ... perfect shadows that shift and glow... ... perfect shadows that shift and grow..." "Sam singing on page 256 of Linger.

Maggie Stiefvater

He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.

Maggie Stiefvater

I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don't see inside his head.

Madame de Stael

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

Lynn Davies

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

Haruki Murakami

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

Haruki Murakami

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

Haruki Murakami

She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming such things exist- remain hidden away. Except for when a practical sort of decision has to be made, she never gives her personal opinion about anything. She seldom talks about herself, instead letting others talk, nodding warmly as she listens. But most people start to feel vaguely uneasy when talking with her, as if they suspect they're wasting her time, trampling on her private, graceful, dignified world. And that impression is, for the most part, correct.

Haruki Murakami

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

Haruki Murakami

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

Haruki Murakami

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

Harlan Ellison

Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better.

Karl Kraus

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

Karl Kraus

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

Karl Lagerfeld

I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.

Karl Lagerfeld

Personality begins where comparison ends.

Karl Lagerfeld

It’s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible. It’s a question of will and discipline.

Pamela Anderson

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

Oveta Culp Hobby

Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.

Oscar Isaac

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

Kathryn Hahn

I'm perfect. We're all perfect.

William Feather

Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

Saint Francis de Sales

Naturally we all have an inclination to command, and a great aversion to obey; and yet it is certain that it is more for our good to obey than to command; hence perfect souls have always had a great affection for obedience, and have found all their joy and comfort in it.

Saint Francis de Sales

Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes from within our power.

Saint Francis de Sales

We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.

Saint Augustine

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

Wole Soyinka

A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.