Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brigham Young

We are doing well, notwithstanding all our failings and weaknesses; but the Lord would like to have us a little more diligent; he would like us to cleave a little more closely to the things of his kingdom, have more of his Spirit, and know more of him and of one another, that complete and perfect confidence can be restored.

Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.

We don't have to be perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning values with actions.

Bonnie Hammer

World Screen is a great resource-the perfect one-stop guide to what matters most in global entertainment.

Barbara Bush

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

Aphra Behn

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Bruce Lee

I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

Brother Lawrence

The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.

Brother Lawrence

The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.

Edmund Husserl

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

Edmund Burke

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

Edmund Burke

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

Deb Caletti

I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

What you create doesn't have to be perfect.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The perfect place to begin is exactly where you are right now.

Diana Gabaldon

you might not be the first person l kissed, but you will be the last' Jamie to Claire in Outlander (not word perfect)

Edward Dyer

My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

You're expected to be perfect the day you start and then improve.

Ed Sheeran

I don't ever want to be perfect, Cause I'm a singer that you Never want to see shirtless

Elizabeth Moon

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

Eliza Farnham

The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Edna O'Brien

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

Bobby Flay

I love working with big flavors like chiles and smoke. Honey is perfect for softening the edges, mellowing them out a bit. I put it in everything - vinaigrettes, soups, stocks, salsas, so I'm always on the hunt for great honey.

Augusten Burroughs

Saying just the right thing after a considerable, awkward pause is far less effective than saying the wrong thing with perfect timing. I'm telling you.

Bertrand Russell

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

Ben Fountain

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

C. S. Lewis

We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.

Daniel Handler

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

Elizabeth Scott

Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.

B. C. Forbes

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.