Defects Quotes

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.