Imperfect Quotes

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

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

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.

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.

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

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.

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

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

There is always a "but" in this imperfect world.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

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.

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

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.

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.

Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

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.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.