Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect." Chapter 12, pg 213 — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“She was full of flaws which with time would evolve into full-blown personality defects.” — Joanna Jordan 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
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
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 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
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 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
...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
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
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
In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded… — Louis Auchincloss 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
What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects. — Carmen Busquets Copy Share Image
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect — Patrick White Copy Share Image
We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects. — Barry Boehm Copy Share Image
The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
