Defective Quotes

92 Defective quotes by 82 unique authors

No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer. — W. Edwards Deming
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up. — P.D. James
George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Destructive Failure: Reveals limitations and weakness, highlights your shortcomings and when not processed correctly, keeps you feeling inadequate and defective. Productive failure: Reveals limitations and… — June Hunt
That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of… — J C Ryle
This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects,… — Pope John Paul II
The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the… — Adolf Hitler
Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective. — Emanuel Lasker
To think, "I am a sinner, oh Father, save me," is a defective approach! You should say, "I am your son, I am your daughter,… — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me. — Phillip Lopate
An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can… — Robert A. Heinlein
Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry that there are… — Ellen G. White
Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry that there are… — Ellen G. White
It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt… — Norman Cousins
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless. — Evelyn Waugh
I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector';… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective. — Hermann Minkowski
Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and… — Benjamin Lee Whorf

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