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Related A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfec... CHUCK PALAHNIUK If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot... JAMES S.A. COREY It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was i... ELIZABETH GOUDGE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfect... DREW BARRYMORE It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment he... THRITY UMRIGAR 'Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could d... DRAKE Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA It seemed he was the perfect lover, at least for the moment. He did not live where you lived. He did... BEN GREENMAN The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I... DOROTHY HAMILL With 10 minutes I just looked up and it was like 'ugh' for a minute. There was no rebound effort. LATORYA FULLER A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart." — Chuck Palahniuk, ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into ... RISA LAVIZZO-MOUREY (The run) was definitely the key, but at the same time, I feel like it was a 40-minute effort. Every... JOAKIM NOAH I was very pleased with her effort. She executed everything we asked her to do to perfection. We jus... BASHEER ABDULLAH The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliamen... DAVID LANGE I've loved Michael Jackson since the minute I was born. He's probably the most talented pers... ZENDAYA The philosophic goal in China was a search for harmony and perfection, not the discovery of truth by... PATRICK MENDIS She was very upset. She had a goal, and breaking a minute is a milestone like the four-minute mile. AL MARKS We were fortunate enough to get a crucial shot as the buzzer expired from Tyler McEnroe. It was exci... ADAM PEEK You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Life is neither about expecting perfection from each other, nor waiting for the perfect moment. It i... SHAFEEQ QURESHI The perfect being, huh? There is no such thing as perfect in this world. That may sound cliché, but... TITE KUBO Dennis and I and Crawford had a heck of a race. One minute, I thought Dennis was going to win. Then ... TED MUSGRAVE He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the
celibate amongst the inferior states o... ROBERT BOYLE To be told at the last minute that he had to leave was tough for him and it was tough for us to see ... ERIC BERNOTAS And if one person sees the love of Christ in me, it is worth every minute. In fact, it is worth spen... KATIE J. DAVIS It was worth all the time and hard work. It was good experience, and definitely a unique one. JACOB MILLER Tonight was disappointing. After the 10-minute mark (of the first half), it just was not our night. ... ANTHONY SOLOMON The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the... ANUJ SOMANY She had the biggest heart. She was the most caring person you could ever meet. BETHANY NICHOLSON Overall, it was a huge success for me. It was a huge honor for me to be a two-time Olympian and have... JEREMY BLOOM [M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress. MICHELLE BURFORD I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. WARREN BUFFETT Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. COLIN POWELL The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championshi... ABBY WAMBACH Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was some... HUGH MACKAY I expect perfection from myself. BRYCE HARPER We are extremely familiar with two-minute situations. Often, we just go in the middle of the game an... JUSTIN BURKE In a moment of sheer terror, I realized I couldn't feel my brain. It was there just a minute ago. Ma... DARYNDA JONES I knew there was one point I was more than a minute behind. But I didn't worry because according to ... CATHERINE NDEREBA The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know i... LIONEL RICHIE Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grand... CATE BLANCHETT Nobody ever dared with Frank, because he had such mood swings, and you never knew how he was going t... DON RICKLES It caught me a little bit off guard, ... At first, I lost my memory for a moment, that music had a m... BRADLEY FREEMAN The Kennedys were very organized. Dinner was always served at 7:15, and if you were a minute late, i... ETHEL KENNEDY I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI When I look at you I see flawless perfection-I know somedays you think my eye needs more training- b... UNKNOWN Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... T... R.D. LAING Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. STANELY J. RANDALL The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job
application form. STANELY J. RANDALL Say, I was on The Craig Kilbourne Show and the next day I flew to Minneapolis. I was at the airport ... MITCH HEDBERG I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute. LONI ANDERSON At the time, we just knew that we had to come together or be destroyed. It just shows what you can d... LIZ MORIONDO It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not... WILLIAM FAULKNER One thing that he said was the assumption that a sniper was a single person could not be further fro... RICHARD CONWAY The Taoist and Zen conception of perfection... the dynamic nature of their philosophy laid more stre... KAKUZō OKAKURA It was his first fight back (since a May 13 knockout loss) and he wanted to put the work in. We had ... ALAN TUCKER It was his first fight back (since a May 13 knockout loss) and he wanted to put the work in, ... We ... ALAN TUCKER I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. WARREN BUFFETT but I never believed for a minute Peter was serious. He loved this job. It was his core being. CHARLES GIBSON Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it fr... TERI GARR The minute he walked into that room, he got a standing ovation. Every player and coach was on his fe... MIKE SHANAHAN The corner kick right before half was nice and the minute Alex hit that corner, I said that's a grea... DOUG KILBY I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club&... JEN LANCASTER I wasn't very pleased with our performance Friday. We had the 45 minute delay, and both teams combin... JEFF MATHEWS It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise momen... ROY L. PICKERING JR. She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE I cannot say that it was hard work. No work with interest is ever hard. I always am certain of resul... HENRY FORD He said because she was a good sleeper before she'd cry for a few minute, I went in after 10 minutes... CRYSTAL JASKULA The short program, I knew at the Grand Prix, wasn't as ready as the long program. I didn't expect pe... EMANUEL SANDHU How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS She was probably the most charitable person you could ever meet. NIGEL WRIGHT
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justifie... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Hysteria is only possible with an audience. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things th... CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The things you own end up owning you. CHUCK PALAHNIUK No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. CHUCK PALAHNIUK We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depre... CHUCK PALAHNIUK We just had a near-life experience! CHUCK PALAHNIUK This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you thei... CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose? CHUCK PALAHNIUK Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough. CHUCK PALAHNIUK A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfec... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Masochism is a valuable job skill. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Which is worse: Hell or nothing? CHUCK PALAHNIUK People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac... CHUCK PALAHNIUK You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Real discoveries come from chaos. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The future is just wasted on some people. 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