Faults Quotes - Page 19

• It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.

  Martin Firrell

  International Herald Tribune, September 19, 2005.

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• No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.

  Owen Feltham

  Friends, Men, Annoyed

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• I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon the cross by human ignorance. It seems to me that He above all desired to bring men a message of truth, that He wanted to heal them of their faults by making an appeal to all their energy; He shook them as much as He could, He did not seek to spare them the trouble.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Ignorance, Men, Forever

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.375, U of Nebraska Press

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• If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.

  David Brooks

  Civilization, President, Visitors

  "December 30: President Obama, Brokaw, Meacham, Kearns Goodwin, Brooks, Todd". "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. December 30, 2012.

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• None of this seems to affect the leadership, that people don't go out to vote, that they don't feel the need to go vote, that they already feel disenfranchised. It's not just Obama's fault or Clinton's or whomever's, it's all of them, the whole collection of clowns I've had to sit through.

  Lewis Black

  People, Needs, Vote

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.

  Robert Henry Newell

  Mistake, Remember, Forgetful

  Robert Henry Newell (1871). “Versatilities”, p.186

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• The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  Wings, Feet, Soul

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Journal of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.15

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• The lurking tragedy: The chances are that an accident will some day happen to you at a friend's dinner table ... As long as water and coffee and jelly exist, a certain percentage of each will necessarily be overturned upon a like number of snowy white tablecloths. Usually the tragedy is really no one's fault.

  Mary Elizabeth Clark

  Coffee, White, Numbers

  Mary Elizabeth Clark, Margery Closey Quigley (1939). “Etiquette Every Child Should Know”

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• People are just self-centered-it's all about them. And we're telling people it's okay to be 'all about you' because you're a victim and it's not your fault. That's why society has gotten more and more belligerent and selfish.

  Jim Norton

  Selfish, People, Self Centered

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• If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Grief, Support, World

  Letter to Jules Siegel, Cavalier magazine, August 1965.

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• We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Slaying

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• The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

  "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future". Book by Daniel H. Pink, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2006.

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• If I seem to be reckless with myself,It's the fault of no one.All things have a placeUnder the moon as well as the sun.

  Elliott Smith

  Moon, Sun, Reckless

  Song: Little One, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004

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• Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Years, Events

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• Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Blessing, Men

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.148, Zondervan

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• Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

  Hank Johnson

  Jobs, Feet, Unemployment

  "Ryan Budget More Fuzzy Math and Magic Asterisks" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2014.

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• With all this talk about the supposed strain in relations [with the Soviet Union], there is an inference that somehow it is our fault. But we didn't kill Russian civilians by shooting down a civilian airplane. We didn't attempt to conquer an adjacent country to ours. We didn't walk out on negotiations and refuse to give a date for when we would resume.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, War, Airplane

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• One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Spring, Writing, Character

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• People are very narcissistic. It's not all their fault. We live in a society where there is a magazine for you, a channel for you, a perfume for you.

  Bill Maher

  People, Narcissistic, Magazines

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, People, Evil

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love You, Mean, Names

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

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• The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.333

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• But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.

  Anthony Burgess

  Thinking, Discovery, Expectations

  Anthony Burgess (1980). “Earthly powers”, Simon & Schuster

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• I wish I knew all the answers, how to be perfect, attractive and witty. But I'm just a human being with all the regular faults and it seems no matter how hard I try, I can't change that.

  Rebecca

  Witty, Perfect, Wish

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• The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Poetry, World, Splendor

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