Quotes About Defective

To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?

I have never heard Ill of some Person, I always impute it to defective Intelligence; for there are none without their Faults, no not one.

In 2008, Sinegal bought a Kindle e-reader that turned out to be defective and wrote Bezos a laudatory e-mail after Amazon's customer service replaced his device for free. Bezos wrote back, "I want you to consider me your personal customer service agent on the Kindle." Perhaps

Nothing is so defective as those laws which correct defects.

There was, I think, a prevailing impression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune was the result of the defective moral quality of his being a stranger.

The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.

When Adolf Hitler was imprisoned in 1924, he learned of the Kallikaks in a book he read about heredity. Soon after, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, in which he mimicked the language of American eugenicists, declaring that sterilization of defective people "is the most humane act of mankind.

I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?

the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire.

I forgot the defective can be more than the whole

What at night had been perfect and ideal was by day the more or less defective real.

In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire

Nothing is more likely than that [the] enumeration of powers is defective. This is the ordinary case of all human works. Let us then go on perfecting it by adding by way of amendment to the Constitution those powers which time and trial show are still wanting

Somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed." Murray quipped, "She doesn't have a right side." "Hey, you know where that term came from?" Jules asked. Sophie smiled at the probie. "Where?" "Left-handed people used to be considered defective. So family members tried to break the habit. They'd push the lefty's bed to the wall and made him get up on the opposite side, causing the person to be cranky.

The degenerative processes in children have their chief encouragement in the equally defective home surroundings.

The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It can provide no substitute for the rewards of service. It can, of course, care for the defective and recognize distinguished merit. The normal must care for themselves. Self-government means self-support.

Princess, your temper tantrums make you as defective as an open-ended condom.

In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a defective motor. I said, 'Send it back. We'll send you a new one.' She said, 'No - I'm not sending you Rosie.'

[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

But this argument is found to be defective when examined in its effects and consequences.

We are faulty and there is no need to bother trying to correct our flaws. We are so defective and so mismatched to our environment that we can just work around these flaws. I

Needless to say that the ideas of this book fall squarely into the Tragic category: We are faulty and there is no need to bother trying to correct our flaws. We are so defective and so mismatched to our environment that we can just work around these flaws.

For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological.

Hilbert once said, "If mathematical thinking is defective, where are we to find truth and certitude?