I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“When you're part of a gang, you soon find the parts of you that don't fit. These apparent defects can become assets;… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of… — Edmonia Lewis Copy Share Image
Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“All day long, no one is at fault for anything. Whatever faults we see; we see them because of our own defects.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in… — Carlos Beltran Copy Share Image
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may… — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let us think about 'zero-defect and zero effect'. Zero defect in production with no adverse effect on the environment. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness. — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
You know, Alix, men suck. Really. They are the worst. Come with me. I need an estrogen fix before their chromosomal defects… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory,… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also… — Plato Copy Share Image
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
