Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beatrix Potter

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Baroness Orczy

I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

Charles Darwin

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

Chris Evert

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Jane Austen

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

Jascha Heifetz

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

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.

David Twohy

I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.

David Horowitz

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

David Hockney

I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.

David Hockney

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

David Hockney

I was never that interested in movies. I was interested in them as a thing, but I didn't want to make movies. I always wanted to draw and paint.

David Duval

I'm content. I want to have better success in the tournaments than I've had, but I know I'm playing well, so I'm happy with that.

David Dinkins

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.

David Brooks

I want to limit the effects of the power of donors, no question about it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Trust yourself,..dig deep down and ask yourself who you want to be? Not what, but who?

Augusten Burroughs

There's not enough of me left over.

Carroll Shelby

There is never enough horsepower......just not enough traction.

Brian Dawkins

I'm always striving to do more. Whatever I accomplish, it's not enough. I don't get satisfied.

Brian Eno

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

David Sedaris

Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.

Barbara de Angelis

When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?

Casey Stengel

My health is good enough about the shoulders.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition.