Quotes & Sayings About Exemplary Performance

Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime. — Amelie Nothomb

For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her. — Charles Caleb Colton

There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement. — Theodore Roosevelt

I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production. — Jennifer Garner

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids. — Brian K. Vaughan

I want to get up at 6 A.M. and go swimming and do 30 lengths. — Sadie Frost

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction. — Sam Harris

If you read one book you are a clone. If you read two books you are confused. If you read ten books you have your own voice. And if you read one hundred books you are wise. (paraphrase) — Timothy Keller

Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail. — John C. Calhoun

If I'm the godfather of [Obamacare], then it gives me the right to kill it. — Mitt Romney

Which meant he had about eight weeks to pull something amazing out of his butt.
His butt was not being terribly helpful. — Cherie Priest

I want it to stop," he said. "Sophie says everyone is still searching for a cure for me. I know I gave Will my permission, but I want everyone to cease looking now, Charlotte. It is over. — Cassandra Clare

Cosmetic decoration, which frequently distorts the data, will never salvage an underlying lack of content. — Edward R. Tufte

Have you ever been writing something when you just forgot where you were, and what time it was, and you kept diving down deeper into your words?
No, it's more like diving down through your words
past them, and way further down into someplace out.
In fact, it doesn't matter whether you're naked or not, since the next thing is, you leave your body totally behind and just go off into your mind. A whole other part of your mind. — Peter Gould