Defects Quotes

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Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect. — John Fowles
Talent is often a defect in character. — Karl Kraus
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's… — Mark Strand
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence.… — Reinhold Niebuhr
What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go. — Lynne Truss
The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects. — Jacques Maritain
The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each… — Kadmi Cohen
Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal… — George Papandreou
In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical… — John Walford
Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks… — D. Elton Trueblood
To Amma, all are Her children. In Amma's eyes no defect of Her children is serious. But when She is considered as the guru, it… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor… — Arthur Helps
Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants. — Che Guevara
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers,… — Charles Buck
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. — Werner Herzog
One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once. — Jack Abramoff
Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years. — Maggie Gallagher
The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages. — Mahmoud Mohammed Taha
Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try… — H. P. Blavatsky

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