Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.
I tend to really like things that are broken, I like the ones that are perfectly imperfect.
Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!
Why are all Christians happy and praising Jesus? It's because we are not DEAD! We may be imperfect, but we aren't DEAD!
Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love.
Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.
Our opponent [ Representative John Lewis] is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.
What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.
Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.
I'd like to do radio just like pictures - leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor.
...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.
The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.
The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else.
We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.
True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.
It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.
We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.
How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?
I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.
Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.
When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.
I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all.
It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.
Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.
I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.
When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.
Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.
I realized we're all perfectly imperfect, which was a big thing. Perfectionism, to me, was an important thing.
While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.
We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.
The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.
Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.
I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all.
Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. To love somebody isn`t just a strong feeling. It is a decision, a judgment, and a promise.
as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!
I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.
The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.
I think it is an imperfect arms control agreement. It's not a friendship treaty. But when America gives her word, we have to live up to it and work with our allies.
Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.
I'm not perfect. I don't claim to be perfect. So, when people point out I'm imperfect, so what? That's just who I am.
More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.
Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.
We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?
Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.
[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.
Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
A role model is an imperfect person, not a perfect person, because that's who we are as real people.
It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one’s faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God’s church.
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