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Quotes About Imperfections

Compared to these women, isn't a woman who is not beautiful—who is even considered to be ugly—and yet enjoys that fact, a far happier person? No matter how beautiful a woman might be, she always has imperfections, and likewise no matter how ugly a woman might be, there's always a part of her that is beautiful. And they seem to freely revel in that part of themselves, unlike beautiful women. It's not a substitute for anything, or a metaphor.
~ Haruki Murakami
You know the adage, when you want something done, ask a busy person. It's so true. Having kids taught me to prioritize, delegate, and accept life's imperfections. I also learned the all-important skill of jumping off the train: taking breaks in career and passion pursuits to tend to the things that last.
~ Rachel Campos-Duffy
As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.
~ Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.
~ Kristin Scott Thomas
Truly you describe the perfect family," said Poirot. "Yet no family is without its troubles. There must have been something that was less than perfect.
~ Sophie Hannah
Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty.
~ John Pierrakos
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
~ David Hume
Love is never perfect, big brother. It's what you make of the imperfections in it that makes the ride worthwhile.
~ Jay Crownover, Rome
If we are interested in Christ by faith, notwithstanding our imperfections and sins, God will be our God through grace.
~ Adoniram Judson
Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.
~ Danny Huston
I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.
~ Denise Mina
Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
~ Brent Weeks, The Black Prism
Still, that's the point of love; you love someone despite their flaws.
~ Sophie Kinsella
that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws
~ Audrey Niffenegger
All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Love is being accepting of all of their flaws.
~ Haley Pullos
it wasn't about finding the perfect guy; it was about finding a guy whose faults you could live with.
~ Sylvia Day
It is in the gap between your imperfections, honestly faced, and your desire for something beyond perfection that you can achieve genius. Perfect pitch, perfect life, perfect love – these are dead-ends.
~ Tabish Khair
History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
~ Julian Barnes
You have many flaws, he announced... "But there was one flaw that made all the other imperfections pale in comparison." "Was?" she asked. "I don't have this flaw any longer?" "No, you don't." "Pray tell," she muttered in exasperation, "what was this terrible flaw?" He grinned. "You used to be English.
~ Julie Garwood
Familien sind Bücher, die mit Blut geschrieben werden. Die Erinnerung an den Anfang schwindet, je näher man dem Ende kommt. Die vorderen Seiten mögen vom Gewicht der hinteren erdrückt werden, aber jedes Blutbuch braucht sämtliche Seiten mit all ihren Makeln, um vollständig zu sein.
~ Kai Meyer
I have moles and freckles, and they irritate me. They are an insecurity of mine, and I wish I could have clear, beautiful skin.
~ Khloe Kardashian
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
~ Francis Picabia
Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to isolationism a quarter of a century ago was started not by a direct attack against international cooperation but against the alleged imperfections of the peace.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt