Defects Quotes · Page 6

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

— Marilyn Yalom

Those who search for the defects of others dont know their own defects.

— Vikrant Parsai

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

— Nicolas Chamfort

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

— Henry Becque

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

— Bainbridge Colby

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

— Robert Penn Warren

These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under…

— Pierre Corneille

I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of…

— Curtis Jackson

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.

— Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a…

— Tony Robbins

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can…

— Emily Oster

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and…

— Solomon Ortiz

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

— Jane Austen

“I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbours' defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their…

— Anonymous

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage…

— William Shakespeare

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The…

— Henri Matisse

Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance…

— Margaret Sanger

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise.…

— Philip Yancey

A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant…

— Ashley Judd

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes,…

— Anais Nin

The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of…

— John Jay Chapman

In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists…

— John Walford

Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' (in Paris, ed.) and let himself loose... ...Do not picture these in costume, they are not for…

— Edward Hopper

To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as…

— James Madison

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.

— Jose Mourinho

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you don't know what the defect level is, how do you know when to get mad?

— Phil Crosby

Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.

— Joel Fuhrman

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

— Tom DeMarco

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

— Henry David Thoreau

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses.

— Samael Aun Weor

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

— Thomas Mann

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

— Patrick White

“Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.”

— Alexander Pope

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld