Defects Quotes · Page 8

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

— Che Guevara

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

— Anne Lamott

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.

— Roberto Cavalli

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

— Jack Abramoff

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

— Isak Dinesen

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

— Marilyn Yalom

“So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of…

— Plato

With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment…

— Marcello Mastroianni

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and…

— John Macmurray

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

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on…

— Bertrand Russell

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

This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them…

— Swami Vivekananda

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and…

— Anonymous

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor…

— John Adams

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it…

— Czeslaw Milosz

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise.…

— Philip Yancey

A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant…

— Ashley Judd

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage…

— William Shakespeare

Those who search for the defects of others dont know their own defects.

— Vikrant Parsai

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

— Nicolas Chamfort

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

— Winifred Holtby

I have a personality defect where I REFUSE to see myself as an underdog.

— Mindy Kaling

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

— Bainbridge Colby

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

— Henry Becque

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

— Robert Penn Warren

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.

— Jose Mourinho

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.

— Joel Fuhrman

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

— Tom DeMarco

If you don't know what the defect level is, how do you know when to get mad?

— Phil Crosby

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little…

— Margaret Halsey

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of…

— Charlotte Mason