quotes about Defects
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I'm a good person, but with many defects.
-- Enrique Iglesias -
Only the great can afford to have great defects.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
-- Francois Fenelon -
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The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.
-- Henry Becque -
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
-- Honore de Balzac -
I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.
-- Jacques Lacan -
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
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One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
-- Jonathan Edwards -
Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
-- Jonathan Swift -
If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?
-- Josemaria Escriva -
What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.
-- Lynne Truss -
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I have a personality defect where I REFUSE to see myself as an underdog.
-- Mindy KalingSource : "Sundance: Lena Dunham, Kristen Wiig and Your Other Favorite Female Comedians on Misogyny, Sex Scenes, and Their Secret Weapons" by Emily Buder, www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2015.
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No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.
-- Mitch Albom -
I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.
-- Omar Sharif -
In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.
-- Phil CrosbySource : "Let's Talk Quality: 96 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask Phil Crosby". Book by Philip B. Crosby, 1989.
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If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
-- Robert Lowell -
It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another.
-- Robert Penn Warren -
Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
-- Saadi -
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If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.
-- Sun Myung MoonSource : "The Way of God's Will" by Sun Myung Moon, (Chapter 3-1 The Church and Church Life), 1980.
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It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
-- Tom Stoppard -
The person I like most is the one who points out my defects
-- Umar -
[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
-- Winifred Holtby -
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For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.
-- Marilyn Yalom -
We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles -
We all have the defects of our qualities.
-- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon