Quotes About Defects

That, by the way, was Kafka's problem when it came to writing: he saw all the defects—his own and everyone else's.

Don't look for excuses. The truth is that the older I get, the more I like my defects. Old age is the best moment to be and do whatever you enjoy. Soon no

It's impossible to have zero defects.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

you never cure structural defects; the system corrects itself by collapsing.*2

Testing gathers information about a product; it does not fix things it finds that are wrong.

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

Tourette's has always been a tough one for many to digest because of its seeming irrationality: 'Why do you have to twitch or make noises? You seem normal, with no physical defects.' It's next to impossible to answer without living it.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

But when they had to form a particular judgment on the men of their own party, they recognized their defects, and decided that individually no one of them was deserving of what, collectively, they seemed entitled to; and being ashamed of them, turned to bestow their honours on those who deserved them. Of

This method of depositing protective layers avoided exposing materials to air and impurities that could cause defects. It was a major advance in reliability

There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.

Along through the book I have distributed a few anachronisms and unborn historical incidents and such things, as to help the tale over the difficult places. This idea is not original with me; I got it out of Herodotus. Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects."

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects.

Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

The very essence of gravity was design, and consequently deceit… it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it,—viz., A mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.

If it is true that a man marries, for preference, his opposite (the "law of life"), that is because we have an instinctive horror of being tied to someone who displays the same defects and idiosyncrasies as ourselves. The reason is obviously that defects and idiosyncrasies, discovered in someone near to us, rob us of the illusion-which we formerly fostered-that in ourselves they would be eccentricities, excusable because of their originality.

My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

We don't love qualities, we love persons sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

But any war is harvest to such Governments, however ruinous it may be to a nation. It serves to keep up deceitful expectations, which prevent a people looking into the defects and abuses of Government. It is the "lo here!" and the "lo there!" that amuses and cheats the multitude.