Faults Quotes
1750 quotes by 1168 authors
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Maybe it’s my own fault. Maybe I led you to believe it was easy when it wasn’t. Maybe I made you think my highlights started…
— Michael Jordan
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Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers
— Robin Morgan
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Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.
— John F. Kennedy
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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for…
— Thomas Carlyle
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To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.
— George Sand
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Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
— John Churton Collins
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Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
— Antisthenes
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Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of…
— Robert Frost
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However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight…
— John Ruskin
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Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as…
— William A. Dembski
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You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.
— Preston Sturges
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The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't…
— Amitav Ghosh
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I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which…
— Lester Horton
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Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
— Vladimir Kramnik
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Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the…
— Fareed Zakaria
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Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up…
— Philip Larkin
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Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey…
— Samuel Johnson
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I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper.…
— Helen Keller
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A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal…
— Saint Augustine
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