The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of… — Edward Bach Copy Share Image
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Is there something I can help with?” “No,” Kat said petulantly. “You’re a man and I hate all of you right now.”… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we… — Colley Cibber Copy Share Image
Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“When man finds in himself a certain defect, of which he can by no means rid himself, there remains but to accept… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Mystical bliss, joy and rapture are part of both yoga and vipassana. When the mind is concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, free from… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the… — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of… — Plato Copy Share Image
...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and… — John Macmurray Copy Share Image
There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment… — Marcello Mastroianni Copy Share Image
The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness… — Francois Fenelon 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
The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related… — Leonard L. Berry 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
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
