Quotes of Flawed - somelinesforyou

“ We are all imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. ”

- William Howard Taft

“ I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. ”

- Alexander Hamilton

“ The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. ”

- Doug Larson

“ The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. ”

- Unknown

“ A young man married is a man that 's marr'd. - All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Contentment is accepting the world as an imperfect place. ”

- Unknown

“ The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. ”

- Robert S. Hillyer

“ The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. ”

- Unknown

“ Life is just an endless chain of judgements… The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success. ”

- B.C. Forbes

“ Both trials are marred with injustice, both are flawed. ”

- Ramsey Clark

“ For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches. ”

- Bible

“ There is always a "but" in this imperfect world. ”

- Emily Bronte

“ Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Sometimes it comes down to a very simple reason why you win or lose. They were perfect from the line and we were very imperfect. ”

- Rick Pitino

“ Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. ”

- William Howard Taft

“ Life is just an endless chain of judgements.... The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success. ”

- B. C. Forbes

“ Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again. ”

- Karl Popper

“ Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. ”

- Owen Felltham

“ His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity. ”

- John Ballantine Gough

“ A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. ”

- Dave Meurer

“ Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep. ”

- Benjamin Rush

“ Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. ”

- Brooks Atkinson

“ I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security. ”

- Mary Landrieu

“ When we can't access our inner resources, we come to the flawed conclusion that happiness and fulfillment come only from external events. That's because external events usually bring with them some sort of change. And so we've learned to rely on circumstances outside ourselves for forward or backward momentum as we hurtle through life… ”

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

“ It's very, very important to understand that war is the result of a flawed peace, and we must understand the systems that are at work here. You know, we must understand that the resistance movement in Iraq is a resistance movement that all of us have to support, because it's our war, too. ”

- Arundhati Roy

“ Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader. ”

- Terry Eagleton
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