Defective Quotes

92 Defective quotes by 82 unique authors

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
Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes… — Michel de Montaigne
Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective — Bertrand Russell
It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of… — James Wolcott
A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or… — Toni Morrison
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you… — Milan Kundera
The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It… — Calvin Coolidge
If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective. — Ted Nugent
...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in… — Thomas Hardy
and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the… — Jodi Picoult
It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants - packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective or… — Zadie Smith
Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody. — Florence King
Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order a… — Eric Schlosser
What I really want is to sit next to someone on an L.L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and drink coffee from… — Augusten Burroughs
I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together – the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel

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