Wade Davis Quotes

Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.

Wade Davis

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• As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Different
  • Perfect

• Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • War
  • Future

• I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Love
  • Perfect

• I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Always

• Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • High
  • Perfect
  • Never

• I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Kids
  • Perfect
  • Day

• I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • Girl
  • Perfect
  • Hard

• What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Perfect
  • More
  • Union

• Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Perfect
  • Honest
  • Nostalgia

• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Art
  • Death

• The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Long
  • May
  • Perfect

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • May
  • Perfect

• For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Mother
  • Perfect
  • Play

• Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Men
  • Gold

• The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • World
  • American
  • Perfect

• I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Perfect
  • Day
  • Beginning

• I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.

  

  Eli Roth
  • People
  • Society
  • Brave

• Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • School
  • Money

• I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.

  

  Anthony Ray Hinton
  • Trying
  • End
  • Death Penalty

• I've always refused to play terrorists.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Play
  • Always
  • Refused

• Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Friend

• Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Perfect
  • Brave
  • Grit