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Quotes About Imperfection

If it was up to us every single day, then we would all have a perfect life, but stuff happens, but it's an imperfect world.
~ Anthony Rendon
By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.
~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
We're very skeptical of people who are too perfect.
~ Morten Tyldum
Sometimes I sketch and then scan my sketch directly to make the curves more freehand. I don't want to make perfect industrial curves.
~ Ma Yansong
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
~ Ben Shahn
If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about.
~ Allen Grossman
It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.
~ Daniel Handler
Love, no matter how it's expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flawed. But that doesn't diminish it.
~ Erin McCarthy
It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others
~ Francois Fenelon
The flaw is the thing we love.
~ Gail Caldwell
Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.
~ Henry David Thoreau
At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.
~ Hillary Clinton
I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me
~ Jodi Picoult
Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.
~ Margaret Atwood
Haven't you noticed grown-ups aren't perfect? asked Mrs. Quimby. Especially when they're tired. Then how come you expect kids to be so perfect all the time? demanded Ramona.
~ Beverly Cleary
No family is perfect. Get that idea out of your head. And nobody is perfect either. All we can do is work at it. And we do.
~ Beverly Cleary
You can think whatever you want, Mr. Speaker, but you should show respect—if not for me then for all the other people who dedicate their lives to stopping terrorism and keeping our country safe. We aren't perfect, and we never will be. But we will never stop doing our best.
~ Bill Clinton
I don't get to choose which defects God will remove.
~ Bill P.
The problem with people is that they're only human.
~ Bill Watterson
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them.
~ Blaise Pascal
Nothing is so defective as those laws which correct defects.
~ Blaise Pascal
La nature a des perfections pour montrer qu'elle est l'image de Dieu, et des défauts pour montrer qu'elle n'en est que l'image.
~ Blaise Pascal
Credo che non ti amerei tanto se in te non ci fosse nulla da lamentare, nulla da rimpiangere. Io non amo la gente perfetta, quelli che non sono mai caduti, non hanno inciampato. La loro è una virtù spenta, di poco valore. A loro non si è svelata la bellezza della vita.
~ Boris Pasternak
Io non amo la gente perfetta, quelli che non sono mai caduti, non hanno inciampato. La loro è una virtù spenta, di poco valore. A loro non si è svelata la bellezza della vita.
~ Boris Pasternak