Defects Quotes · Page 8

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

— Owen Feltham

God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.

— Max Lucado

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

— Lynne Truss

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

— Victor Hugo

“She was full of flaws which with time would evolve into full-blown personality defects.”

— Joanna Jordan

I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.

— Carrie Fisher

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

— Herbert Spencer

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

— Jenni Rivera

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.

— W. Edwards Deming

We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest…

— Che Guevara

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern,…

— Matthew Arnold

The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if…

— Philip Pullman

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of…

— George Washington

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were…

— Nikolai Gogol

I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are,…

— Lester Grinspoon

I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will…

— Thomas Jefferson

The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors,…

— Steve McIntyre

Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but…

— John Climacus

In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearance is used for the revealed pillars,…

— Miyamoto Musashi

I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of…

— Anne Lamott

God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors, and blemishes. But He also sees our value.…

— Max Lucado

“Defects are completed in love, but it's not the same in business.”

— Alan Maiccon

So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects.

— Carmen Busquets

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

— Jane Austen

Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.

— W. Edwards Deming

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

— Tom Stoppard

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

— Jonathan Swift

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

— C. S. Lewis

Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.

— Anonymous

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

— Marquis de Sade

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

— William Hazlitt

I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect." Chapter 12, pg 213

— Sylvia Day

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

— Alexander Pope

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that…

— H. P. Blavatsky

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

— Pierre Corneille