Faults Quotes - Page 33

• Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Whips

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.212, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.

  George Ayittey

  Gone, Orthodoxy, Claims

  "Border Jumpers". Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2005.

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• I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Real, Thinking, Trying

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• Now if the wearing of fine and precious robes were not a fault, word of God would never have so carefully expressed this. For no one seeks costly garments except for vainglory, that he may seem more honorable than others; for no one wishes to be clothed with such, where he cannot be seen by others.

  Pope Gregory I

  Wish, May, Garments

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• We are posing two very clear questions. The first is: Did the Holocaust actually take place? You answer this question in the affirmative. So, the second question is: Whose fault was it? The answer to that has to be found in Europe and not in Palestine. It is perfectly clear: If the Holocaust took place in Europe, one also has to find the answer to it in Europe.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Europe, Two, Holocaust

  "We Are Determined". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. May 30, 2006.

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• I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Believe, Virtue, Neighbor

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• Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable;even this State and this American government are, in many respects, very admirable, and rare things, to be thankful for, such as a great many have described them; but seen from a point of view a little higher, they are what I have described them; seen from a higher still, and the highest, who shall say what they are, or that they are worth looking at or thinking of at all?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Law, Government

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.108, Bantam Classics

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• Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Ugly, Humans

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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• With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.

  John Steinbeck

  Shining, Horror

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• The problem with fault-findingIs that he who finds fault with othersIs in no way a happy person Even after he has successfully Accomplished his task.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Tasks, Way, Problem

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• Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults.

  Edgar Cayce

  Virtue

  Edgar Cayce (2010). “Planetary Influences & Sojourns”, p.48, ARE Press

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• Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Justice, Ordinary, Each Day

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Special, Bows, Kind

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.108, Princeton University Press

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• If my team isn't motivated, it's my fault. I can't consider myself the best of the best until my team is able to get out of the first round.

  Jermaine O'Neal

  Team, Able, Firsts

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• Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  May, Suspicion, Great Ones

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.74, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Life and perfection, joy and repose and whatever all the senses desire, lie in the distinguishing spirit, and from it they have everything that they have. Even if the organs lose in power and the life in them decreases in activity, it does not decrease in the distinguishing spirit, from which they receive the same life, when the fault or infirmity is removed.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Lying, Perfection, Joy

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• This country provides opportunities. If you don't take advantage of them, it's your own fault.

  Sam Huff

  Country, Opportunity, Advantage

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• My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but the grousing of a few adult pedants is nothing compared to the wrath of several million bookish 10-year-olds. Their presumed demands, and the hovering spirit of Harry's creator, J. K. Rowling, inhibit this movie as it did the first Potter film.

  A. O. Scott

  Wrath, Years, Adults

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• The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it.

  Saint Augustine

  Law, Evil, Water

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• I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution....The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground. Although it provides that all men shall enjoy religious freedom, yet it does not provide the manner by which that freedom can be preserved, nor for the punishment of Government officers who refuse to protect the people in their religious rights, punish those mobs, states, or communities who interfere with the rights of the people on account of their religion. Its sentiments are good, but it provides no means of enforcing them.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Religious, Mean, Men

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• I find no fault with the Constitution or laws of our country, they are good enough. It is the abuse of those laws which I despise, and which God, good men and angels abhor.

  Brigham Young

  Country, Angel, Men

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• I love Austin, but last time I was in town for twelve hours. I was exhausted, drunk and miserable. But none of that was Austin's fault.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Drunk, Twelve, Austin

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 9, 2013.

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• If you're raised in a household where questions are encouraged, you're the minority. It's sad. One of the things that has resonated the most for me is that, in the '50s, if your sex life was unfulfilling, it was your fault, as a woman. It was never the man's fault. Millions of women thought they were working with faulty equipment. If they couldn't have orgasms from having sex with their husbands, then they were broken. That's insane, and everybody believed it.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Sex, Husband, Men

  "Lizzy Caplan Talks MASTERS OF SEX, Her Real-Life Counterpart, Going to Work and Watching People Pretend to Have Sex, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. October 5, 2013.

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• Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

  John Calvin

  Fall, Majesty, Praying

  John Calvin, Jean Calvin, Thomas Boston (1996). “Sermons on Galatians”, Banner of Truth

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• I don't want comedy to be Bridesmaids 2. I'm not denigrating Bridesmaids but, enough already, let's stop pretending women are incalculably different to us. Seeking out podcasts, listening on headphones, it's like an intimate, specific conversation. People respond if it feels from the heart. I'm as neurotic a human being as lives, and I have my faults. I'm a drunk. But people really like that.

  Greg Proops

  Heart, Enough Already, People

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