Quotes About Imperfection

The poets have been right in all these centuries, darling; even in its astounding imperfection this earth of ours is magnificent. But oh this human race!

I am something incorrect: a hair in the cottage cheese. Something uncouth: a fart in the elevator.

I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.

Of course, to attain righteousness by observing the law, people must keep the law perfectly (James 2:10), which no person is capable of doing.

One tooth missing. And only half roughed. on one side only. I'd not call her pretty.

La novela es el único territorio literario en el que reina la misma imprecisión y desmesura que en la existencia humana. Es un género sucio, híbrido, alborotado. Escribir novelas es un oficio que carece de glamour; somos los obreros de la literatura y tenemos que colocar ladrillo tras ladrillo, mancharnos las manos y baldarnos la espalda del esfuerzo para levantar una humilde pared de palabras que a lo peor luego se nos derrumba.

Loving a person, she [Rachael] had told herself, is not finding perfection, but forgiving faults. ['Someone To Trust']

Libertarians (like anarchists and Marxists) generally believe that human nature is good, though damaged by certain social institutions. Conservatives, on the contrary, hold that in Adam's fall we sinned all: human nature, though compounded of both good and evil, is irremediably flawed; so the perfection of society is impossible, all human beings being imperfect.

When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.

If we ask what poetry is we may say in general that it is a victory over the world; it is through a negation of the imperfect actuality that poetry opens up a higher actuality

People do say that now to know oneself is a deception and an imperfection, but often they are unwilling to understand that someone who actually knows himself perceives precisely that he is not capable of anything at all

human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions

Esta noite, ao rolhar energicamente um frasco com a etiqueta Fórmula Especial n.º 30, cheguei ao fim da minha longa autobiografia: em palavras e em conserva, imortalizei as minhas recordações, ainda que, num como noutro método, seja inevitável a distorção. Temos de viver, receio bem, com as sombras da imperfeição.

The camera sees broken windows.

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength

In your flaws are hidden your strength. Your perfect imperfection will lead you to change.

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

Bonaparte chantait presque aussi faux que Louis XV

I grant that the caprices of democracy are perpetual; its instruments are rude; its laws imperfect. But if it were true that soon no just medium would exist between the empire of democracy and the dominion of a single arm, should we not rather incline towards the former than submit voluntarily to the latter? And if complete equality be our fate, is it not better to be levelled by free institutions than by despotic power?

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. —"ANTHEM" BY LEONARD COHEN

The imperfect were often angry

Heaven wasn't perfect.