Defects Quotes · Page 7

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

— Tom DeMarco

I have a personality defect where I REFUSE to see myself as an underdog.

— Mindy Kaling

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

— Winifred Holtby

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

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

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

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

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about…

— Pope Francis

Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and…

— J. Edwin Orr

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities,…

— Albert Camus

It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.

— Maggie Shayne

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is…

— Wietse Venema

Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their…

— Donatella Versace

It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing…

— Isabel Allende

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no…

— Jonathan Swift

When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in…

— Carlos Beltran

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Before you were born—before any of your defects were apparent to you—they were absolutely apparent to God. That didn’t stop Him from…

— Steven Furtick

If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its…

— Fernando Pessoa

Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create…

— W. Edwards Deming

If even one country, an Iceland for example, defects from this global legislative bargain and says no, we're not going to enforcement…

— Edward Snowden

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

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

— Lafcadio Hearn

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you.

— Rumi

“Any defects in our features amount to negative features.”

— Anonymous

There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

— Phil Crosby

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

— Edith Piaf

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The person I like most is the one who points out my defects

— Anonymous

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What's the name of the birth defect you have, trampled by a horse during the 2nd trimester?

— Jim Norton

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

— Henny Youngman

One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

— Robert Kiyosaki

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

— Christopher Fry