Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]…If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“I assume that defects are weapons in God's arsenal through which he uses to humble and draw mankind closer to himself.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Very often, I recognize many, many defects, so I try to improve myself every day. I think my voice is very communicative. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery. — Heidi Murkoff Copy Share Image
The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There's a lot wrong [with American universities]. I'd remove 3/4 of the faculty - everything but the hard sciences. But nobody's going… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule:… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter,… — Constance Marie Copy Share Image
Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“When you're part of a gang, you soon find the parts of you that don't fit. These apparent defects can become assets;… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God gave me a physical defect, I've accepted that since I was a kid. When I was a kid people were laughing… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“All day long, no one is at fault for anything. Whatever faults we see; we see them because of our own defects.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of… — Edmonia Lewis Copy Share Image
Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may… — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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