Shauna Niequist Present Over Perfect Quotes

#1. Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. Death rock me asleep.

William Shakespeare

#3. [Present over perfect is] about rejecting the myth that every day is a new opportunity to prove our worth, and about the truth that our worth is inherent, given by God, not earned by our hustling.

Shauna Niequist

#4. Fundamentalism fills you with answers before you even think to ask the questions.

Robert M. Price

#5. Once words have been said there is no way to un-say them

Federico Chini

#6. With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.

Sarah Waters

#7. And yet, when everything is alien the alien becomes familiar.

Matt Haig

#8. When lifting, I'm always with a trainer because the thing that makes a difference is that last 20% in your training, and he very scientifically looks after my food as well, because when I'm going for a 'shirt off' shot, everything changes the month before, and I'm timed down to the day.

Hugh Jackman

#9. All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.

Chief Seattle

#11. You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.

Elayne Boosler

#12. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun.

Cassandra Clare