Faults Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• 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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• 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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• People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do not disappointment them, or, if they do, the owners manages to forget about it quickly. I want to learn to love people like this, the way I love my dog, with pride and enthusiasm and a complete amnesia for faults. In short, to love others the way my dog loves me.

  Ann Patchett

  Dog, Disappointment, Acceptance

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• I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone.

  Tiger Woods

  Doors, Perfect, Feelings

  Tiger Woods statement, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2009.

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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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• 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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• 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 of the horse is put on the saddle.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Saddles

  George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Barnabas Oley (1848). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...”, p.256

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• A lot of Congressmen yesterday were upset when Kenneth Lay took the Fifth. Lay said it wasn't his fault. He had planned on testifying, but when Jeffrey Skilling testified, he took all the really good lies.

  Jay Leno

  Lying, Yesterday, Upset

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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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• Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

  Philip Sidney

  Plato, Light, Essence

  Sir Philip Sidney, Richard Bellings (1724). “The works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, kt. in prose and verse: In three volumes. ...”

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• I was angry and frightened, and I was scared. I knew what I had done. The whole night is my fault. None of this would have happened if I didn’t drink.

  Kim Richards

  Night, Done, Scared

  "Kim Richards In Her Interview With Dr. Phil About Her Recent Arrest: ‘Is This An Intervention’?". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2015.

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• I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.

  Ronnie Wood

  Risk, Management, Rich

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• I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.

  Ben Horowitz

  Running, Mean, Ideas

  "HOROWITZ TELLS ALL: This Guy Just Raised A $1.5 Billion Fund". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I only see the faults, flaws, the imperfections. That attracts me.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Imperfection, Flaws

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• In Republican fantasy world, everything is always Obama's fault. Somehow, he's weak and he's ineffective, and yet he pulls the strings on everything in the world.

  Bill Maher

  World, Fantasy, Republican

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• All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.

  Myron Scholes

  Mean, Decision, Tools

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• "She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Want

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.326

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• I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.

  Charles Dickens

  Fire, Feelings, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.79

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• I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot add a cubit to one's stature, all striving and struggling are useless there, so one has to be silent about it, and let the responsibility rest with God.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Depressing, Struggle, Responsibility

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• There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Humble, Thinking, Ends

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Alchemy of Happiness”, p.134, Library of Alexandria

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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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