Quotes About Imperfection

Indeed, how could we experience grace at all except through our defects?

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults," said Pascal, "but it is a still greater evil to be full of them, and to be unwilling to recognize them.

What a test of love it is, when the beloved is less than perfect.

quando se reconhece que o amado é tudo menos perfeito, tal constitui um verdadeiro teste ao amor.

A measure of such things which in any degree falls short of the whole truth is not fair measure; for nothing imperfect is the measure of anything, although persons are too apt to be contented and think that they need search no further.

The world is imperfect, but there are millions of perfect moments.

The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal.

People who want things to be perfect are always impossible to please. But that doesn't mean we should stop trying. Even if their expectations aren't correct, their instincts

If my words cut, then let them cut as the physick's knife, to restore health. And let my own imperfections, numerous as grains of sand, not mar my message.

The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is not the can. On those nights when you lie awake, either man or boy, wondering about yourself, peeling away one layer of oddness after another, you should remember and always be grateful that the woefully imperfect person that you are, with all your contradictions and unworthy desires, is not the best of you, any more than the wrapper is the best part of a Mr. Goodbar.

I have had successes but also failures, because whatever else I might be, I am first and foremost human, and the tendency of our fallen kind is to fall again.

They seemed to have thought of everything, but they were human, and therefore they had definitely not thought of everything.

You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.

we all lose a stitch now and then. Just like life, don´t you think?

even if a perfect system could be designed, it would still have to operate in an imperfect world.

So he's a bad guy." "Everyone's bad." "No," Bob said, "they're not. Most people are okay." "Yeah?" A smile of disbelief. "Yeah. They just, I dunno, make a lotta messes and then they make more messes trying to clean those first messes up and after a while that's your life." She sniffled and chuckled at the same time. "That's it, uh?" "That's it sometimes.

Now, I am not basically a nice person. I _am_ snice, arrogant, and short-tempered. I try to overcome these things, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

I think you kind of lose the human aspect when you make things too perfect.

I attempt to do my best and do what's right, but that doesn't mean I'm always right.

I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I am an avid mother, let me put it that way.

The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.

I can't lie: We have made some dogs over the years. Every album we did wasn't great, you know.

I'm drawn to the not-so-perfect character.

I like wearing nice clothes and dressing up. At the same time, I know that I can't be perfect all the time.