Defects Quotes · Page 6

Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.

— Anne Lamott

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

— Aldous Huxley

The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

— Francois Fenelon

About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.

— Barry Boehm

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.”

— Alexander Pope

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

— Patrick White

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

— Thomas Mann

Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.

— Seth Godin

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

— Samuel Johnson

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence…

— Suzanne Curchod

Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only…

— Blaise Pascal

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us,…

— William Shakespeare

Very often, I recognize many, many defects, so I try to improve myself every day. I think my voice is very communicative.

— Andrea Bocelli

“I assume that defects are weapons in God's arsenal through which he uses to humble and draw mankind closer to himself.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy,…

— Lou Holtz

Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness…

— Anonymous

Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three…

— Bertrand Russell

There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of…

— John Dewey

In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of…

— Roger Bacon

It's always the last one because it's so present in your body. I liked Scream of the Banshee because it was a…

— Lance Henriksen

He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself…

— Pio of Pietrelcina

I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this…

— Lance Henriksen

I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to…

— Mark Twain

But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man,…

— Sidney Lanier

Galen , in the third section of his book, "The Use of the Limbs," says correctly that it would be in vain…

— Maimonides

It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses.

— Samael Aun Weor

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

— Henry David Thoreau

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

— Umberto Eco

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your…

— Jane Austen

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

— Jules Renard

People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.

— Haruki Murakami

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

— Bertolt Brecht

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

— Mark Twain

Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

— Laozi