Top 1200 Imperfect Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

I don't think I'm a witty person. To me, a witty person is a funny person who is also a smart person. My friend David Rakoff, who died a few years ago, he was a witty person. Fran Lebowitz is a witty person. I don't think there are that many witty people around, so you tend to notice them when they do come around. I don't consider myself to be that.

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be ascertained.

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

I’m a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I’m a tired person.

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

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 certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.

The moment you achieve perfection, you are dead. The word exists because we are all imperfect. That is true about performance as well.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.

I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."

Why in times of need do we call on that one person? Why do we confide in that one person. Why do we feel safe with that one person? Why would we follow that one person anywhere? Because that person is a leader.

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.

However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.

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.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

My hand will always be imperfect because it's human… I think that's where the beauty is.

A committed giver is an incurably happy person, a secure person, a satisfied person, and a prosperous person.

Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

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.

To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.

I believe in person to person; every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is only one person in the world for me at that moment.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

I do not invent characters. There they are. That's who they are. That's their nature. They talk and they behave the way they want to behave. I don't have a character behaving one way, then a point comes in the play where the person has to either stay or leave. If I had it plotted that the person leaves, then the person leaves. If that's what the person wants to do. I let the person do what the person wants or has to do at the time of the event.

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

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.

This is a lesson about life: This is one person. This is another person. This is one person trying to understand another person, even though it doesn't have room to download the other person into it's brain. It cannot understand the other person, even though it tries to. So he ends up overflowing with knowledge.

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.