Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Whichcote

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

Benjamin Tucker

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Bob Fosse

I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.

Bob Geldof

I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.

Bo Sanchez

Even if you don't see the results of your planting, just keep Planting your Love. Your Patience. Your Perseverance. Your Faith.

Nina Tassler

We'll be as competitive in the time period as we can.

We are allies. We have responsibilities to each other. That's why our troops have been here with Italy's permission for so many years,

Andrew Flintoff

We bowled well as a unit which we have been doing for a period of time,

We bordered on perfection out there tonight. The tie is not over yet, but we've taken a magnificent step toward the final.

Aishwarya Rai

Unfortunately my personal involvement in some of my projects is being misconstrued as high-handedness.

William Shakespeare

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

William Shakespeare

Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.

William Shakespeare

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

Che Guevara

Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days.

Charlie Simpson

I've got so many musical personalities, I could probably get treatment for it.

Charles Lyell

In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in perfection the oldest monuments of the earth's history, so far at least as relates to its earliest inhabitants.

Charles Lindbergh

I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.

Charles Lindbergh

The readiness to blame a dead pilot for an accident is nauseating, but it has been the tendency ever since I can remember. What pilot has not been in positions where he was in danger and where perfect judgment would have advised against going?

Ai Weiwei

The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.

Bobbi Brown

Never ask for permission, beg for forgiveness.

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

Oftentimes what you see cancels out what you perceive.

Oleg Cassini

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Tim Finchem

Working in Washington, trying to make a difference, that was a very meaningful time for me, a period of personal growth.

Tift Merritt

My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.

Kara Walker

I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.

Lynsey Addario

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

Jane Austen

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.