Quotes About Imperfection

Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.

Humans make mistakes.

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

No relationship is perfect, they say—they, who make do with dutiful sex and gassy bedtime rituals, who settle for TV as conversation, who believe that husbandly capitulation—yes, honey, okay, honey—is the same as concord.

Olen aina ollut parempi kuin Hopet; se joka selvisi hengissä. Silti olen aina, ihan aina ollut mustasukkainen seitsemälle tuonpuoleisessa tanssivalle prinsessalle. He ovat saavuttaneet täydellisyyden joutumatta yrittämään, olematta hetkeäkään olemassa, kun minä olen jumissa maankamaralla ja joudun yrittämään joka päivä, ja joka päivä saatan osoittautua puutteelliseksi.

I am stuck here on earth, and every day is a chance to be less than perfect.

With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of the book as he was at the beginning. It is not only that his characters have developed--he has developed with them, and this nearly always gives a sense of roughness to the work: a novel can seldom have the sense of perfection which you find in Chekhov's story, The Lady with the Dog.

The Church condemns violence, but it condemns indifference more harshly. Violence can be the expression of love, indifference never. One is an imperfection of charity, the other the perfection of egoism.

I have a gorgeous coat that I found at a vintage fair - it's just so elegant. Unfortunately, it has a massive hole underneath the arm, as I think I may have worn it to death!

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he's not a villain. He's a dude, just a guy.

I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

America needs a strong, rational, positive, practical conservative movement. It needs that bulwark against liberal delusion and hubris. It needs a voice that says we are imperfect, that life is complex, that government can create need even as it meets need, that you can't fix everything, and freedom is worth some danger and sorrow.

Tom and I have never claimed to be perfect, whatever that means in a relationship. We're not trying to be anyone's example. We're living our lives and building our family and doing what we love.

I'm pretty self-aware, and I am an embarrassingly flawed human being in a ton of ways.

I'm perfectly flawed... I've got tons of flaws.

If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.

Perfection, to me ,means you spend much too much time trying to be perfect.

How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.

The greatest imperfection is in our inward sight, that is, to be ghosts unto our own eyes.' Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Morals

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.