Defect Quotes

148 quotes by 128 authors

The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you… — Anais Nin
I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being. — Jacques Lacan
I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It… — Adrienne Rich
The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when… — Mikhail Lermontov
If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to… — Niall Ferguson
Is there something I can help with?â€ â€œNo,â€ Kat said petulantly. â€œYouâ€™re a man and I hate all of you right now.â€ He took two… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in… — Thomas Hobbes
I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect." Chapter 12, pg 213 — Sylvia Day
Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had… — C.S. Lewis
â€‹Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is… — Isabel Allende
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them. — Jane Austen
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. — James Russell Lowell
The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors. — Henry Becque
Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]....If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the field of mummies,… — Dave Barry
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. — Jonathan Swift
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. — Lu Xun
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. — Lao Tzu
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another. — Fred Brooks
Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and… — Hans Blix
Being positive may be a character defect of mine. — Quentin Blake

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