Quotes About Imperfection

The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.

It just goes to show that no matter how great a nail you give humanity, we'll manage to hammer it into the ground crooked. We suck. It's the nature of our species.

Your teeth are too perfect, Hugh. I can help you with that.

In a perfect world, Joshua's vertically gifted murderer would've had himself a monologue before rampaging, during which he loudly and clearly would've announced his full name, occupation, religious preference, preferably with his god's country and time period of origin, his goals, dreams, and aspirations, and the location of his lair. But nobody had ever accused post-Shift Atlanta of being perfect.

She said that there was a unique beauty to the imperfection. No other cup would ever be chipped in quite the same way. It reminded her to pay attention, for every moment could offer an experience that would leave her forever changed.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved .

From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

From the crooked timber of humanity, never was a straight thing made.

From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.

Aus so krummem Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden.

From such crooked timber as humankind is made of nothing entirely straight can be made.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no truly straight thing was ever made.

Love isn't always easy, is it? That's because we're all different. We don't fit together as cleaning as the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes there are gaps. Holes. The finished product when we come together isn't always perfect. But as we're reminded in Corinthians, a love that keeps no record of wrongs...that perseveres...never fails.

God doesn't expect perfection. All he asks is that we learn from our mistakes and try to do better in the future. He forgives us far more easily than we often forgive ourselves. He also heals the brokenhearted and saves those whose spirit is crushed.

Toby had received, though not yet digested, one of the earliest lessons of adult life: that one is never secure. At any moment one can be removed from a state of guileless serenity and plunged into its opposite, without any intermediate condition, so high about us do the waters rise of our own and other people's imperfection.

darkness was staining all the intricate channels of what had once seemed so perfect.

However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after;

Toby had received, though not yet digested, one of the earliest lessons of adult life: that one is never secure. At any moment one can be removed from a state of guileless serenity and plunged into its opposite, without any intermediate condition, so high about us do the waters rise of our own and other people's imperfection.

I know that once I get moving I'll be fine even though I'm a little untidy FUCKIN DAEIN IT AGAIN!! Ah ken that once ah git movin ah'll be fine, even though ah'm a bit scruff order and ask tae borrow Gran's iron

An unpleasant nest of nasty, materialistic and aggressive people, careless of the rights of others, imperfectly democratic at home though quick to see the minor slaveries of others, and greedy without end.

Originalmente el lenguaje fue el medio por el cual el hombre aprendió, de forma imperfecta, a transmitir las ideas y emociones de su mente. Estableciendo arbitrarios sonidos y combinaciones de los mismos que representasen ciertos matices mentales, desarrolló un método de comunicación, método que con su torpeza y falta de adecuación hizo degenerar toda la delicadeza de la mente en roscas señales guturales.

Tennyson once wrote: 'He is all fault who has no fault at all.

no hay finales perfectos. Cada uno lo hace lo mejor que puede, eso es todo.