Imperfection Quote by Bible

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed”…

— L. B. E. Cowman

Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.

— Charles Caleb Colton

We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.

— Anthony Lane

We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure,…

— Ronald Steel

In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

— Thomas Carlyle

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled…

— Abraham Lincoln

We are the benefactors of too much sacrifice and blood, sweat and tears to allow petty differences and trivial discrepancies to continue to separate…

— T.I

We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are…

— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people…

— Salman Rushdie

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.

— Ronald Reagan