Defects Quotes

343 quotes by 263 authors

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
A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God… — Anne Lamott
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
God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors, and blemishes. But He also sees our value. What did Jesus… — Max Lucado
Donâ€™t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go… — Amelia Barr
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them. — Jane Austen
I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any… — Anne Lamott
A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold… — Miguel de Cervantes
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image. — Blaise Pascal
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor defects so they'd… — AndrÃ© Aciman
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we… — Joseph Joubert
Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make… — Donatella Versace
There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of… — Emily Oster
Very often, I recognize many, many defects, so I try to improve myself every day. I think my voice is very communicative. — Andrea Bocelli

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