Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.
The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.
I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.
Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.
God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.
We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.
My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.
Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be ascertained.
How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.
A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.
What's obvious is that the U.S. has a very imperfect system, and yet its leaders are obsessed with lecturing the rest of the world on how to organise their affairs.
Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.
He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.
I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength
Imperfect people are all god has ever had to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to him, but he deals with it. So should we.
Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.
I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.
The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.
We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life.
I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.
Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.
Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
Our history is imperfect, but it has laid the groundwork for the greatest experiment in democracy the world has ever known: America.
Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.
Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.
A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.
The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.
Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.
You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.
However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.
All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
My kids see feminism in action every day, and leading by imperfect example is how I'm raising them.
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.
If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been.
[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.
The moment you achieve perfection, you are dead. The word exists because we are all imperfect. That is true about performance as well.
To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.
I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.
[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.
Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.
The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.
I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.
[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
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