Quotes About Failings

One wishes for a better outcome, for wiser heads, for a more compassionate public. Yet one wishes in vain. The only comfort, if we can call it that, is that a knowledge of our past failings may equip us to confront evil without delay when evil comes again. For it will.

But she, in a sense, had betrayed him first. If she hadn't been so supportive of his failings, he might have made peace long ago.

Indeed, the moral aspirations and the moral failings of polytheism and monotheism—the longing to lead a decent life in the face of the thoroughly human tendency

It may be that poetry's real beauty and elegance is not its finely-chiseled lines or smoothly-rounded ideological concepts at all. The crown of its significance might be––or possibly should be?––its expansive capacity to embrace with equal passion the deadliest failings and the most splendid victories defining human existence.

Sometimes, when you look at an adviser's failings or perceived failings, I think the tough question you have to ask as a journalist is, 'What does this say about the president?'

Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool.

Even a Jedi Knight is still a living being, with the same failings. - Qui-Gon Jinn

Largely to gain Nellie's approbation, Will began to carry a book as a matter of course. "Trollope is a great favorite of mine because of the realistic every day tone which one finds in every line he writes," he told her. "His heroes have failings human character is heir to, and we like them none the less on that account.

The failings in Afghanistan don't fall on the shoulders of the American service personnel trying to complete their mission. The failure falls on military leadership unable to adapt to irregular warfare, and a Congress that blindly continues to fund failure.

Because, ultimately, we can't just think of algorithms in isolation. We have to think of the failings of the people who design them - and the danger to those they are supposedly designed to serve.

He was all too aware of the failings of his species and he knew how to use them to his advantage. A fascinating skill. A useful one. But hardly a loving one.

For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness.

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites and try to control what won't be. But there is grace in their failings.

I have no human failings, none whatsoever. All my failings are animal.

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

Such is the misfortune of men in high stations in certain periods and conditions - for while they seldom find anyone to tell them of their failings, they have no lack of people courageous enough to reprove them for their good deeds.

One of the great surprises is that humans come to full consciousness precisely by shadowboxing, facing their own contradictions, and making friends with their own mistakes and failings. People who have had no inner struggles are invariably both superficial and uninteresting. We tend to endure them more than communicate with them, because they have little to communicate.

It will make you powerful. But it will also make you weak. Your prowess in combat will be beyond any mortal's, but your weaknesses, your failings will increase as well. You mean I'll have a bad heel? I said. Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense.

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

God does indeed forbid," said Radulfus drily, "that we should make more of our virtues or our failings than is due. More than your due you shall not have of, neither praise nor blame. For