Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.

Martin Sheen

People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.

Leonardo da Vinci

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

Laura Miller

There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn’t all that perfect.

Laura Miller

Perfect love was that kind of love that made no sense but made everything else make sense somehow. It was raw and unscripted, turbulent and slightly unpredictable.

Laura Lippman

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

Lance Armstrong

The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.

Lisa Murkowski

I'm excited about what I have to offer. Not only a little bit of youth, but a different perspective as a woman.

John Stuart Mill

I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.

John Rawls

Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.

James Joyce

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

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 Richardson

How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.

Marc Rotenberg

There's a growing sense that the online ad industry is out of control from a privacy perspective and that some rules need to be put in place.

Marc Jacobs

I am a perfect being in a perfect world.

Marc Maron

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.

Thomas a Kempis

Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you.

Thomas a Kempis

In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is joy of spirit; in the Cross is excellence of virtue; in the Cross is perfection of holiness. There is no salvation of soul, nor hope of eternal life, save in the Cross.

Thomas A. Edison

Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something...

Thomas A. Edison

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

Thomas A. Edison

I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.

Thomas A. Edison

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

Thomas A. Edison

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

Simon Conway Morris

On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of life would grow exponentially until the carrying capacity, however defined, was reached. The fossil record on Earth, however, tells a very different story.

Sheryl Sandberg

Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Sheryl Sandberg

Done is better than perfect.

Sheryl Sandberg

Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Natalie Goldberg

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

MyAnna Buring

Normally I'm really lucky because I can go down to my local shops and no one cares. I take the Tube and the bus so it's kind of the perfect balance.

Tatiana Maslany

I'm excited to work on something where I have a bit more time with it, to explore one personality. That's definitely exciting to me.

Tanya Tucker

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Talisa Soto

Perfection does not exist. It's more important to be happy with the human being you are.

Takeshi Kitano

I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would be that I lack the necessary perseverance to stick to one thing that really fits me. I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing.