Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth… — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive… — David Stove Copy Share Image
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If we women did not love you for your defects, where would you all be? Not one of you would ever be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If I were travelling with two partners, one virtuous and one dishonest, both would be useful as teachers. I would perceive what's… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And there are vampires, too? Werewolves, warlocks, all that stuff?" Clary gnawed her lower lip. "So I hear." "And you kill them,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when… — Richard Hamming 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
Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results.… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,… — Pope Benedict XVI 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
Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you. — Rumi Copy Share Image
