Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul von Hindenburg

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

Paul Wellstone

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

Mary Pipher

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

Mary Oliver

Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?

Mary Douglas

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.

Martin Buber

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

Martin Buber

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

Martin Amis

Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is...to impress your personality on the road.

Martin Amis

Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.

Martin Amis

Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life.

Pope Benedict XVI

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

Joan D. Vinge

Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.

Eric Whitacre

The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

Emma Thompson

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

Emma Goldman

Peter Kropotkin...was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds...of the nineteenth century...The lucidity and brilliance of his mind combined with his warm-heartednes s into the harmonious whole of a fascinating and gracious personality.

Emma Goldman

Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.

Emma Watson

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

Emma Watson

I'm excited about the aging process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.

Emma Watson

I have to kind of like switch heads. Sometimes I manage it seamlessly, and other times I feel rather all over the place. I feel a bit schizophrenic, like I have a split personality.

Emma Watson

I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.

John Irving

Keep passing the open windows.

John Holmes

To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up.

John Hurt

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

John Hodgman

I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn Türoque, the world's perennial second-place air guitar champion. Whoever this Dan Crane might be, he's captured the mad, seductive spirit of the arbitrary skill contest perfectly, and rocks it hard into the hot Finnish night. There is no number of umlauts that do this Jekyll and Hyde of air-rocking justice.

John Henry Newman

There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.

John H. Johnson

Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.

John Friend

Releasing masks and veils allows the other to see you in your authenticity. Guards are dropped, and we can be seen for who we really are: the uniqueness of our personality, the beauty of our soul, our pure spirit.

John Galsworthy

The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.

John Fahey

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

John Drinkwater

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

John Ortberg

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.