Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Azzedine Alaia

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

Anton Corbijn

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.

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.

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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

David Cameron

Over the longer term, the institutions and powers of the EU will continue to expand and certain policymaking powers, heretofore vested in the member states, will be delegated or transferred to, or pooled and shared with EU institutions. As a result, the sovereignty of the member states will increasingly be eroded.

Amar Bose

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

Gene Simmons

Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.

Ivan Krastev

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

There exists no more democratic institution than the market

Eric Ries

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

Paddy Ashdown

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Don Argus

It is low in the index, and probably it makes sense to collapse the dual-listed structure.

Cory Jacobs

It felt good once we got back into it and we started playing better defense and getting in to what we usually do, but then I don't know what happened, we collapsed and we couldn't get back up.

Ken Landon

I think gold started declining after the dollar/yen's collapse overnight.

Rafer Alston

I thought he was going to collapse out there.

Eliot Spitzer

I don't expect a settlement, and I don't expect a collapse of discussions.

Tony Ruivivar

He collapsed at the end of our show, and was still singing on the ground; we had to take the microphone away from him.

George Packer

What the Web has never figured out is how to pay for reporting, which, with the collapse of print newspapers, is in desperately short supply, and without which even the most prolific commenters will someday run out of things to say.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

Michael Robotham

Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War.