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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.
The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.
Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.
Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.
Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.
It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.
I think the path for a young writer might be one that says, "I have to accept myself, this is what I am. I can't eradicate my defects. I can work on them."
We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.
The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.
Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's yours now and you're responsible for it.
I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects.
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.
Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.
it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
I am happier with my face since I started wearing glasses at 27, because they punctuate it. They also hide one of my biggest defects, my baggy eyes.
There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.
Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.
One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.
There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.
I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.
A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.
It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.
About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.
The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.
The more successful I become, the more I want to remain like me, with my defects and insecurities.
Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.
those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.
Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.
The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.
Buddhism has helped me understand my defects and has given me the tools to combat them.
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
