Defects Quotes

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 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.

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

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

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

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

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

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

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.

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.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

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

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

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

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

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

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

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

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

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

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

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.

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.

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

Never judge a work of art by its 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 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.