Quotes About Defect

When man finds in himself a certain defect, of which he can by no means rid himself, there remains but to accept the so-called failing as a natural quality. The more grave and important the defect, the more urgent is the need to ennoble it.

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

But no perfection is so absolute That some inpurity doth not pollute.

Salió de la cantina casi de buen humor, y de hecho divertido con la idea de que estaba apostando la cordura por la evidencia flaca de un escalofrío compartido. —¿Es usted un romántico? —pregunta la heroína de la película. —Sí —responde su héroe—. ¿Le molesta? —No —concluye, sabihonda, la mujer—. Todos tenemos algún defecto.

The chief defect of Henry KingWas chewing little bits of string.

Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.

Well, I just don't want you to think that this piece of shit is anything other than a pathetic, human defect. Nothing more. Not a monster, not a bogeyman. Nothing but another reason to feel better about yourself. Understand that it's just a person - not worth devoting any nightmares to.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Human thinking is born out of this neurological defect in the human species. Anything that is born out of human thinking is destructive. Thought is destructive. Thought is a protective mechanism. It draws frontiers around itself, and it wants to protect itself. It is for the same reason that we also draw lines on this planet and extend them as far as we can.

That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

F]or a thing to be evil, one single defect suffices, whereas for it to be good . . . it is not enough for it to be good in one point only, it must be good in every respect. . . .

They're not idealists like Joe and me; they're cynics with utter faith. It's a sort of brain defect, like a lobotomy—that

But don't you see, pervading the letter and guiding the pen, the great intellectual and moral defect of the present day? I mean, the habit of dwelling on appearances, not on realities, of preferring the report to the bullet, and the echo to the report.

Aprendió la dura lección que Moisés había tratado de enseñar a los israelitas siglos atrás: cualquier cosa que los seres humanos toquen, llevará un defecto fatal. Los buenos tiempos representan el verdadero peligro; nuestros mejores esfuerzos nos llevan a la ruina. En resumen, los seres humanos no son dioses, y ese entendimiento llevó al Maestro a la desesperación.

Adic? socoÈ›i dreptatea un defect? - Nu, ci doar o nobil? neghiobie. (Trachymarchos în Republica, de Platon)

Booker T. Washington wrote that "character, not circumstances", makes the person. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character." While character makes for a good story or poem, in reality we are less shaped by character traits than we think, and more than we realize by the circumstances that life deals us - and our responses to those circumstances.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded as a defect, a limitation of my imagination. I could put myself in their position, but not politically. The idea of writing a story or a book about somebody completely devoid of appreciation of anything I care about is completely foreign to me.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.