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Quotes About Defects

In my view, statutory ambiguities are less like dandelions on an unmowed lawn than they are like manufacturing defects in a modern automobile: they happen, but they are pretty rare, given the number of parts involved.
~ Raymond Kethledge
When Indian economy was growing at the rate of 8 to 9 percent, I think everybody was quite happy. Even when there were defects in our policies, they were overlooked, and when the economy slows down, people try to find fault and excuses.
~ Manmohan Singh
There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.
~ Emily Oster
My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.
~ Jessie Pavelka
It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila
Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence
~ Samuel Johnson
Men soon the faults of others learn, A few their virtues, too, find out; But is there one?I have a doubt? Who can his own defects discern?
~ Sanskrit Proverb
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
~ Voltaire
Mi-am folosit cât mai bine calit??ile, am profitat chiar de pe urma defectelor, dar nu È›in cu dinadinsul s? m? las moÈ™tenire cuiva.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
She had repaid his kindness with kindness. As she would not have done if she had known who he was. What he was. When defects of character are your character, you become a what. He had noticed this. No one ever says, A liar is who you are, or Who you are is a thief. He was a what, absolutely.
~ Marilynne Robinson
los amigos siempre debían subestimar las virtudes de uno, mientras que los enemigos debían sobrevalorar los defectos.
~ Mario Puzo
So too the poet, in representing men who are irascible or indolent, or have other defects of character, should preserve the type and yet ennoble it.
~ Aristotle
Apart from this common Lassan tendency to procrastinate, Kumar's chief defects were an adventurous nature and a fondness for sometimes risky practical jokes. This
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Changing prejudice often inverts the value of words while preserving most of their sense; virtues are turned into vices, artistic qualities become defects.
~ John Shearman
The price is high for not defining requirements or not doing it well. Poorly defined requirements result in requirements defects—errors in requirements caused by incorrect, incomplete, missing, or conflicting requirements. Defective requirements may result in: • Cost overruns, • Expensive rework, • Poor quality, • Late delivery, • Dissatisfied customers, and • Exhausted and demoralized team members.
~ Ellen Gottesdiener
I have all the defects of other people and yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.
~ Emil Cioran
Fugind de defecte oamenilor, fugi È™i de virtuÈ›ile lor: iat? c? înÈ›elepciunea e p?gubitoare.
~ Emil Cioran
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is linked to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.
~ Émile Michel Cioran
There are many who think that they are marvelous if they can simply resemble a great man in some one thing; and often they seize only on the defect he has.
~ Baldesar Castiglione
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
~ Jacques Maritain
Very often, I recognize many, many defects, so I try to improve myself every day. I think my voice is very communicative.
~ Andrea Bocelli
They are common defects of my own, and one mustn't criticise other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself.
~ Mark Twain
Children have but little charity for each other's defects.
~ Mark Twain