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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.
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.
Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.
After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life.
My kids see feminism in action every day, and leading by imperfect example is how I'm raising them.
I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
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.
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
[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 lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy.
I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.
I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories.
Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
If it was up to us every single day, then we would all have a perfect life, but stuff happens, but it's an imperfect world.
He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.
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.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
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.
However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.
Leaders get things wrong. Of course they do. They have imperfect information. They face competing political pressures. Ultimately they are human.
What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.
The moment you achieve perfection, you are dead. The word exists because we are all imperfect. That is true about performance as well.
We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.
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.
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.
Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.
Our history is imperfect, but it has laid the groundwork for the greatest experiment in democracy the world has ever known: America.
The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy.
Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
I do honestly believe that, in the 21st century, sport is the most significant cultural element in this imperfect world. It calls for serious attention.
Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.
The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.
I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.
It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.
In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be ascertained.
[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.
All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.
I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.
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.
Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet
I'll believe in utopia when I meet my first perfect person, and this community is made up of 70,000 imperfect persons.
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?
[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.
I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.
I've said from the beginning that Obamacare is an imperfect piece of legislation that is designed to do a very important thing for this country. It's not perfect, and repealing it is a terrible idea.
Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.
Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.
