Defects Quote by Joanna Jordan

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

— Jack Abramoff

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

— Lynne Truss

“Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.”

— Alexander Pope

But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's…

— Sidney Lanier

A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering,…

— Ayn Rand

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of…

— Samuel Johnson

Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.

— W. Edwards Deming

Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal…

— Ali Sina

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do…

— Haruki Murakami

I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I…

— Edmonia Lewis

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

— Umberto Eco