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Quotes About Imperfect

As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.
~ James Badge Dale
The early favorite for the GOP nomination and 'natural' heir to Reagan was Vice President George H.W. Bush. But Bush was an imperfect fit for the party's base.
~ Steve Kornacki
But in practice, very few markets are "perfect." Porter's five forces framework offers a way to think systematically about imperfect markets.
~ Joan Magretta
I guess I'm sorry I'm hypocritical. I'm not perfect. get over yourself.
~ Unknown
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood
~ Chris Hadfield
We're humans, so we're messy
~ Dennis Lehane
But the remembering is imperfect; the instructions for which neurons need to be gathered and how exactly they need to fire are weak and degraded, leading to a representation that is only a dim and often inaccurate copy of the real experience. Memory is fiction. It may present itself to us as fact, but it is highly susceptible to distortion. Memory is not just replaying, but a rewriting.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.
~ Steven Pinker
When I create a character, particularly my central character, I want someone who is interesting and feels real and who might have quite a few virtues but is unlikely to be perfect, who hasn't necessarily made all the right choices.
~ Nick Earls
To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
~ Louise Erdrich
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
~ Unknown
Religion is the disuniting of man from himself; he sets God before him as the antithesis of himself. … God is … infinite, man … finite … ; God … perfect, man imperfect; … God almighty, man weak; God holy, man sinful.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
Unfortunately, purges are not something which happen just because men are imperfect. Purges are the necessary consequences of the philosophical foundation of Marxian socialism.
~ Ludwig von Mises
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.
~ Frances Harper
Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
~ James Anthony Froude
And if thou begin to work in Mercury itself, where nature hath left it imperfect, thou shall find perfection and shall rejoice.
~ Unknown
If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.
~ Plutarch
To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.
~ Samuel Parr
You're special and you can make a difference in this life, no matter how imperfect you are or how broken your life is.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The results of the general election in December 2015 established the emergence of a new, imperfect four-party system in Spain. The PP remained the
~ Manuel Castells
Let us not then suspect our happie State   Left so imperfet by the Maker wise,   As not secure to single or combin'd.   Fraile is our happiness, if this be so,   And EDEN were no EDEN thus expos'd.
~ John Milton
Pornography and its slightly more demure cousin, advertising, present an ideal world, and the claims of the ideal strain and stress imperfect reality.
~ John Updike
Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.
~ Unknown