Faults Quotes - Page 40

• Yes, I do like to be in control. I do like everything to be laid out, to know what I'm doing. I'm very impatient. I like things done yesterday, which is probably a fault of mine. I like things to be neat and tidy and organised. I say what I want and show what I want and I keep things private.

  Alan Shearer

  Yesterday, Neat And Tidy, Want

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• What does it mean to know and experience my own “nothingness?” It is not enough to turn away in disgust from my illusions and faults and mistakes, to separate myself from them as if they were not, and as if I were someone other than myself. This kind of self-annihilati on is only a worse illusion, it is a pretended humility which, by saying “I am nothing” I mean in effect “I wish I were not what I am.

  Thomas Merton

  Mistake, Mean, Humility

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.49, Macmillan

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• We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.

  Cyrus the Great

  Ought

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• Apparently it’s my fault that the Titanic sank.

  Ian Holloway

  "Holloway column". Interview with Chris Charles, news.bbc.co.uk. February 15, 2008.

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• Remember God is not surprised by your inabilities, your imperfections, or your faults.  He has always known everything about you that you are just now finding out, and he chose you on purpose for himself.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Imperfection, Inability

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• David's Lord was made David's Son, and from the fruit of the promised branch sprang One without fault, the two-fold nature coming together in one Person, that by one and the same conception and birth might spring our Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom was present both true Godhead for the performance of mighty works and true Manhood for the endurance of sufferings.

  Pope Leo I

  Christian, Jesus, Spring

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• He who is insolent towards men is insolent towards God... Respect in man the grand, inestimable image of God and be forbearing towards the faults and errors of fallen man, so that God may be forbearing towards your own.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Men, Errors

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• I don't believe that just because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person is born on the other side means that a lot of people should be getting screwed through no fault of their own.

  Ben Cohen

  Believe, Mean, People

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• An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.

  Will Durant

  Men, Play, Skills

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1954). “The story of civilization”

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• A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by coaching your staff to peak performance. Focusing on the positive means that you start with what's good and what works, and spend your attention and energy there.

  Marshall Cook

  Leadership, Jobs, Mistake

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• Where there is no conflict, there is no fault.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Conflict

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• The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.

  I. F. Stone

  Liberty, News, Dozen

  I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.7, PublicAffairs

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• Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  People, Looks, Achilles

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Nature, Mind, Logical

  Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.202, U of Minnesota Press

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• What if your husband’s faults are God’s tools to shape you? What if the very thing that most bugs you about your man constitutes God’s plan to teach you something new? Are you willing to accept that your marriage makeover — the process of moving a man — might begin with you?

  Gary L. Thomas

  Husband, Moving, Men

  Gary L. Thomas (2009). “Sacred Influence: How God Uses Wives to Shape the Souls of Their Husbands”, p.28, Zondervan

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• I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

  Valentino Garavani

  Twitter post from Dec 18, 2015

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• In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks Im nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. Its not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.

  Andrew Eldritch

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in the world; that it was used in many troubled places. I think the policies of these countries are to blame, not the designers. Man is born to protect his family, his children, his wife. But I want you to know that apart from armaments, I have written three books in which I try to educate our youth to show respect for their families, for old people, for history.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Country, Children, Book

  "For Patriotism and Profit". Interview with Robert Fisk, www.worldpress.org. July 2001.

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• I created a weapon to defend the borders of my motherland. It's not my fault that it's being used where it shouldn't be. The politicians are more to blame for this.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Ak 47, Borders, Weapons

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  My husband may have his faults, but he has never lied to me.

  Hillary Clinton

  Husband, May, Lied

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2003). “Living History”, Simon & Schuster

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• Still when it comes to finding fault we are fonder of windows than of mirrors.

  David Wolpe

  Mirrors, Window, Stills

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• People are always going to find fault with anything you do, any process that you're a part of. The creative process means taking risks, I've taken risks and I've made mistakes, but the bottom line is, could anyone else have done any better ? I have to believe that what I created was worthwhile.

  Zach Braff

  Mistake, Believe, Taken

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• The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.

  Spider Robinson

  Reality, Psychosis, Patterns

  "Lady Slings the Booze". Book by Spider Robinson, 1992.

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• There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so on. Because we all believed we were tragic, and we drank. We had that helpless, destined feeling. We would die with handcuffs on. We would be put a stop to, and it wouldn't be our fault. So we imagined. And yet we were always being found innocent for ridiculous reasons.

  Denis Johnson

  Thinking, Yesterday, Feelings

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.32, Macmillan

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• We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Problem, Consolation

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