Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

Jane Austen

The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

Augusten Burroughs

Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.

Juvenal

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

Beyonce Knowles

My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

Dana Delany

I have faith in my imperfections!

Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.

Diane Kruger

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

Eileen Caddy

Do not waste time trying to overcome your weaknesses and failures. Simply raise your consciousness, transcend and free your thoughts from limitation and illusion, and find within the very center of your being a wholeness and completeness! Cease wallowing in your imperfections and never accept limitations! Aim high, and you will get there. It is only your thoughts that hold you back.

Duke of Wellington

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

Donald Miller

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.

Drew Barrymore

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

William Shakespeare

No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.

Shane Koyczan

I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy.

Simon Van Booy

But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

John Ruskin

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

George Eliot

... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

Neal A. Maxwell

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

Neal A. Maxwell

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

Patricia MacLachlan

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

Lucretius

Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.

Mark Levin

Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.

Mia Wasikowska

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

Joseph Addison

The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.

Henry B. Eyring

Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.

Henry David Thoreau

It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

Kevin Rudd

There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states.

Kesha

I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them.

Jonathan Sacks

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.