Quotes About Faulty

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.

Even a clock that's broken is right twice a day.

At the moment, he is in shock," said Magnus. "He has believed one thing for five years, and now he has realized that all this time he has been looking at the world through a faulty mechanism - that all the things he sacrificed in the name of what he thought was good and noble have been a waste, and that he has only hurt what he he loved." "Good God," said Woolsey. "Are you quite sure you've helped him?

When you assume, you make an ass of you and me.

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, The author of this book is mistaken; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

we form many incorrect beliefs because we have natural tendencies to evaluate evidence in a biased and faulty manner.

If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.

Jeffersonian democracy, faulty as it is, and only the fragment of it that we have, is a thing of such preciousness, a thing of such value.

If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.

There's no one else to blame. No Bores or Old Ladies or Norton or Assassins waiting at the bridge.

when you assume you make an ass of u and me—

The other lawyer looked at him and said, "Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." In short, accept that your position was faulty, not your ego. This doesn't mean you don't argue with passion and intensity.

When did things go wrong?" "Your question is based on a faulty premise. Who says there was something wrong with the marriage?

Poor quality begets poor quality and lowers productivity all along the line, and some of the faulty product goes out the door, into the hands of the customer. And unhappy customer tells his friends. The multiplying effect of an unhappy customer is one of those unknown and unknowable figures, and likewise for the multiplying effect of a happy customer, who brings in business.

This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas?

60 percent of all management problems are the result of faulty communications.

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

Janet was a woman in whom early beauty had bred high expectations. Their disappointment brought with it a soured idealism, an idealism capable only of finding the world faulty.

Many, if not most, therapeutic errors are assessment errors; that is, they are therapeutic responses based on faulty understanding and assessment of the problem at hand.

The most brutal truth Is the truth unspoken and Pain is spawned by a faulty connection.

Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!

She tries to search her heart, but the map is old and the compass is faulty.