We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long. — Laozi Copy Share Image
People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its… — John Russell, 1st Earl Russell Copy Share Image
If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Reckless. Insatiable. Deceptive. Clingy. Vain. Dismissive. Trivial. Violent. Tactless. Controlling. Impractical. Fearful. Think of one example in your past where you exhibited… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
What we'd consider a positive role model, I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. You'll have your flaws or… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ...… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a… — Kadmi Cohen Copy Share Image
If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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