Perfectionistic Tendencies Quotes & Sayings

I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing. — Barack Obama

If there is, to be sure, something more terrifying than the history of the fall of great empires, it is the history of the death of religions. Volney himself was overcome by this feeling as he visited the innumerable ruins of once-sacred buildings. The true believer may still escape from this impression, but with the inherent scepticism of our age all of us must sometime tremble to find so many dark gates opening out on to nothingness. — Gerard De Nerval

The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether you get customers or not. If people decide to eat out less during a recession, the first restaurants that they will cut out are the ones that don't do a great job. — Michael Symon

It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq. — Caspar Weinberger

What we did wrong on 'RoboCop,' we just did something new and didn't really take into account what the fans really loved about the original. — Joel Kinnaman

You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives. — Berthold Auerbach

In the NFL they talk about 'contracts,' but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that. — Eric Dickerson

The true lovers of humanity are those who put on the uniform with regret, fight like hell when they wear it, take it off without rejoicing, but hang it where it can be got at if necessary, and remember that they must still stand watch in civilian clothes over the trophies of victory. — Rupert Hughes

God created you to be a success, don't settle for less. — Sunday Adelaja

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy. — Mitch Hedberg

Possessions are a way of turning money into problems. — Brian Eno

His smile is laced with dynamite. — Tahereh Mafi

In the winter, things are dead and dull, but then there is an explosion of life. That's what He promises people who believe in His Son. That's what all the Robertsons are banking on. — Si Robertson