We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Mamma says if we stay so focused on our past failings, we won't be able to move beyond them and learn what… — Annette Bridges Copy Share Image
For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that. — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
People are human. People have failings. It's unfortunate people want to keep piling on people's failings. — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
My dog does have his failings, of course. He's afraid of firecrackers and hides in the clothes closet whenever we run the… — Gary A. Kowalski Copy Share Image
I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you look at an adviser's failings or perceived failings, I think the tough question you have to ask as a… — Jodi Kantor Copy Share Image
Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the… — Alberto Sordi Copy Share Image
“What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered when other people… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“If Pierre Bon-Bon had his failings--and what great man has not a thousand?--if Pierre Bon-Bon, I say, had his failings, they were… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The failings in Afghanistan don't fall on the shoulders of the American service personnel trying to complete their mission. The failure falls… — Erik Prince Copy Share Image
Most security failings happen because of human actions that are not envisaged when designing systems. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
“Refusing to believe that change can occur at any moment is one of the worst of human failings.” — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine. — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings. — A.S.A. Harrison Copy Share Image
Jealousy is simply an unwitting admittance of ones own flaws and failings. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings. — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers. — Hun Sen Copy Share Image
Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I do what I say I’m going to do, but more often I don’t. It’s a failing. The least of my… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams,… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
