Imperfect Quotes

626 quotes by 492 authors

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. — Brooks Atkinson
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As… — Teresa of Avila
I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand for. We are the party… — Michele Bachmann
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made… — Alan Ball
It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15,… — Drew Barrymore
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects… — Joseph Addison
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. — Henry Ward Beecher
Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less… — Annie Besant
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it… — George Boole
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict… — Max Born
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. — David Byrne
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in… — Raymond Chandler
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,… — Jimmy Carter
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. — Chanakya
Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating… — Armand Salacrou
The original sin is not that we are inherently flawed, born sinners, or imperfect; the original sin is that we do not recognize, realize that… — Michael Anthony
It's OK to have fun in the Marine Corps. I like to say we are an imperfect people working in an institution that tries to… — James L. Jones
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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