Blemish Quotes

55 quotes by 39 authors

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion. — Theodor Adorno
One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . .… — Charles Dickens
The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision... — Adolf Hitler
It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one purpose… — Alexander Hamilton
If you want to stay perfect, you cannot go undefeated with a blemish on your record. — Emmitt Smith
On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is… — Ellis Hobbs
If you want to destroy something in this life, be it acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to… — Elif Safak
Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious… — Zhuangzi
Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon… — Baal Shem Tov
The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to the threads of… — Gordon B. Hinckley
It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish. — Simonides of Ceos
To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish. — Saadi
To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise. — Saadi
Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his… — Herman Melville
My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm… — Jude Law
To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish;… — William Tyndale
Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a… — James Whistler
I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation... — Elie Wiesel
In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger… — Benjamin Franklin
These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth… — John Milton

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