Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The body with its perfect mechanism loses power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness, when the soul departs from the body. This shows that the power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness belong to the soul.

Heather Mills

My body shape was made to get into the perfect aerodynamic position.

Malik Bendjelloul

The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.

Mahatma Gandhi

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Perfect nonviolence is difficult. It admits to no weakness.

James Joyce

And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

James Purefoy

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

Laurence J. Peter

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

Libba Bray

You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.

Libba Bray

Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

Gary Chapman

The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.

Jon Foreman

What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society, the inability to find completion within ourselves, and the new way to be human in what Christ offers us - His love and His perfect plan of redemption for us.

Emmitt Smith

If you want to stay perfect, you cannot go undefeated with a blemish on your record.

Napoleon Hill

Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.

Oscar de la Renta

The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times.

Orson Welles

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

Olivia De Havilland

I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

O. Henry

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

Novalis

Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

Ellen G. White

We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.

Ellen G. White

Perfect health depends upon perfect circulation.

Ellen DeGeneres

No one is perfect, except for Penélope Cruz.

Ellen DeGeneres

My life is perfect even when it's not.

Epictetus

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.'

Emily Blunt

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

Emily Giffin

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

Emily Giffin

Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.

Robert Jones

It's not a perfect ordinance, but we're still very pleased.

It's not a perfect number, but at least it's better than a four-year formula.

(The book) is the perfect solution for a lot of people. I'm not the only one out there wanting this book.

It's been 15 or 20 years since we've had such perfect weather. We were very, very fortunate.

It's my first win in Innsbruck, which makes me really happy. I had two perfect runs.