Quotes About Defects

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

What you need is a gramme of soma." "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

Bim allowed herself to smile as the thought occurred to her that perhaps the reason why Signe had two boyfriends was that if you put them together, with their obvious defects, you would end up with one, complete boyfriend.

There are programs that don't work.

So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects.

My self-critical mind allows me to see only the defects and faults in my own work, and so I only have the courage to write snippets and snatches, brief notes on the theme of nonexistence, and yet even the little I write is imperfect.

Accept din t?rie de caracter. M-am n?scut ÅŸi eu,ca toat? lumea,supus erorilor ÅŸi defectelor, Dar nicicând erorii de a dori s? înÅ£eleg prea mult, Nicicând erorii de a dori s? înÅ£eleg numai cu inteligenÅ£a, Nicicând defectului de a-i cere lumii Ceva care s? nu fie lume.

With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.'

The quasi-mythical competitive "free market" provides an overpowering metaphor for a free and efficient economy, but it has little to do with real-world capitalism. As Charles E. Lindblom put it, conventional wisdom continually "stumbles" and is incapable of grasping capitalism as a system, "because the market's dazzling benefits half blind it to the defects.

Afrontar la crítica es la mejor prueba para el trabajo porque permite descubrir virtudes y defectos insospechados, además de que sirve de guía para mejorar en la siguiente ocasión.

Pero cuando se nos pide una opinión, no hacemos ningún favor a nuestros amigos fingiendo no apreciar defectos en su trabajo, en especial cuando quienes no son sus amigos están obligados a reparar en esos mismos defectos.

Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.

Affectation lights a candle to our defects, and though it may gratify ourselves, it disgusts all others

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

Tenho todos os defeitos dos outros e, no entanto, tudo o que eles fazem parece-me inconcebível.

She had thought so much about this baby, of its welfare, its soul, its morals, its probable defects. But, like most unmarried people, she had only thought of it as a word — just as the healthy man only thinks of the word death, not of death itself. The real thing, lying asleep on a dirty rug, disconcerted her.

He was more skilled than they were in the principles of human existence, but he was not so indecently familiar with the examples. A sordid village scandal—such as Stephen described as a huge joke—sprang from certain defects in human nature, with which he was theoretically acquainted. But the example!

I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

That's all right! That's all right!' But for a minute or two it wasn't really. All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities - even merely with the velvet. He added: 'Your mother works you very hard.

All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities--even merely with the velvet.

Podría decirse que el sistema de defensa de nuestra patria adolece de serios defectos. Hasta el momento no nos hemos ocupado de ellos sino de nuestros deberes cotidianos; pero algunos acontecimientos recientes nos inquietan.

Veja se posso amar ou pretender: primeiro, não sou bonito (...); segundo: não sou curioso, e o amor, se o reduzirmos às suas verdadeiras proporções, não passa de uma curiosidade; terceiro: não sou paciente, e nas conquistas amorosas a paciência é a principal virtude; quarto, finalmente: não sou idiota, porque, se com todos estes defeitos pretendesse amar, mostraria a maior falta de razão (Linha reta e linha curva)

...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.