Faults Quotes

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I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred. — Frank Langella
His only fault is that he has no fault. — Pliny the Elder
Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones. — Jean Paul
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault. — Charles Dudley Warner
Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything. — Honore de Balzac
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them. — Christian Nestell Bovee
He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like… — Saint Augustine
Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving. — Pat Robertson
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others. — Samuel Johnson
Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing… — Barry Commoner
You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues. — Wallace D. Wattles
Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and the leaders of… — Spiro T. Agnew
Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faults and defects every work of man must have. — Samuel Johnson
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them. — Boris Pasternak
If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire… — Stephen Covey
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing… — Henry Adams
Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails… — Alfred Nobel
The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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