Quotes About Imperfection

I mean, certainly, not everyone sucks in the same way, and not everyone sucks equally, but everyone sucks at least a little.

You're still a pinless grenade over the world not being perfect. no, I am a pinless grenade over the world being cruel but every time I'm proven wrong, that pin goes in a little more.

I'd thought I remembered her perfectly. But it is much better to see her imperfectly, to see something new every time she moves.

That has to be what love is--seeing what a mess he is and loving him anyway, because you know you're a mess, too, maybe even worse.

Esta imperfección me parece bonita.

When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time. Then people will get to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and wonder what happened—how we all became so imperfect.

Maybe ours wasn't the house I'd have chosen had I been in charge of things. It wasn't as clean as I'd have liked. From the outside, it wasn't remarkable. We had no view, but still it was the place I held in mind, and proudly, when I thought, Home.

Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.

what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

We will never be perfect: that is our limitation.

I am a citizen as well as an individual soul and one of the things citizenship teaches us, over the long stretch, is that there is no perfectibility in human affairs.

I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

Every family has chinks in their armour. I don't know of any family that is perfect.

I try to give my all on the pitch but, like all humans, I make mistakes and I'm not ashamed to admit that.

he adopted a sound view of life, appreciating that its universal law obliges us to put up with the less than perfect in everything.

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.

I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

Choosing the way of Christ not only means identifying with Christ, however; 'it also means identifying with the stubborn, recalcitrant, and frequently offensive flock that he calls his own. . . .Yet as flawed as the people of God are, if the Lord is to be our God then his people must be our people too.