Imperfect Quotes - Page 13

• After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life.

  Lucy Robinson

  Life, Perfect Life, Persons

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• What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.

  Nick Laird

  Selfish, Love Is, Opposites

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• The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

  Brennan Manning

  Men, Light, Darkness

  Brennan Manning (2009). “The Furious Longing of God”, p.32, David C Cook

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• Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

  William Safire

  Winning, Political, Politics

  "The Quotable Politician". Book by William Whitman, p. 60, 2003.

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• I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.

  Mother Teresa

  Writing, Hands, Likes

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• God is looking for imperfect men and women who have learned to walk in moment-by-momen t dependence on the Holy Spirit. Christians who have come to terms with their inadequacies, fears, and failures. Believers who have become discontent with 'surviving' and have taken the time to investigate everything God has to offer in this life.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Taken, Men

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• But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

  Nassau William Senior

  Science, Drawing, Long

  Nassau William Senior (1858). “Political Economy”, p.4

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• We’re all imperfect and we all have needs. The weak usually do not ask for help, so they stay weak. If we recognize that we are imperfect, we will ask for help and we will pray for the guidance necessary to bring positive results to whatever we are doing.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Needs, Helping

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• Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

  Edward Albee

  Happiness, Play, Faults

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• The general feeling is, if you don't treat everyone the same you're showing partiality. To me, that's when you show the most partiality, when you treat everyone the same. You must give each individual the treatment that you feel he earns and deserves, recognizing at all times that you're imperfect and you're going to be incorrect oftentimes in your judgment.

  John Wooden

  Giving, Feelings, Coaching

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• In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

  Joseph Priestley

  Knowledge, Discovery, Ideas

  Joseph Priestley (1780). “The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley”, p.372

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• There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.

  John Owen

  Peace, Perfect, Obedience

  "The Works of John Owen".

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• There is always a but in this imperfect world.

  Anne Bronte

  Imperfect World, Imperfection, A Perfect World

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.257, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kindness, Imperfection, Enemy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.197, 谷月社

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• To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Art, Style, Ineptitude

  Witold Gombrowicz (1988). “Diary”, p.32, Northwestern University Press

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• Love is sometimes shown in the things you don't say, don't keep track of and don't notice. The greatest kindness is often shown in letting things go. None of us is perfect, but we can all be perfect friends and perfect partners by allowing those that we love to be imperfect. Give those around you the 'break' that you hope the world will give you on your own 'bad day' and you'll never, ever regret it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Kindness, Regret, Bad Day

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 09, 2015

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• It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed a much harder, far less affectionate woman than the Diana he had known or had thought he knew - a mythical person, no doubt created by himself. It had of course been evident from her letter, which made no reference to his; but he had not chosen to see the evidence and now it was absolutely forced upon his sight it made his eyes sting and tingle again. And deprived of his myth he felt extraordinarily lonely.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Lonely, Eye, Sight

  Patrick O'Brian (2011). “The Reverse of the Medal (Vol. Book 11) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.168, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. The best way is to forget doubts and set about the task in hand. . . . If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.

  Robert Hillyer

  Failure, Imperfect World, Hands

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• Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide in God's presence. Therefore they look to Christ as the one who bears the iniquity of their holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds from their duties and makes them acceptable to God.

  John Owen

  Weed, Prayer, Add

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• Let’s face it, we’re all imperfect and we’re going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that will enable us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Through adversity, we learn, grow stronger, and become better people.

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Fall, Adversity

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think that we come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are.

  Angelina Jolie

  Imperfect Person, People, Answers

  "Angelina Jolie on Her Insecurities & Finding Happiness". Interview with Hilary Rowland, urbanette.com. August 2016.

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• Disregarding all evidence to the contrary, the student of Truth will maintain that he lives in a PERFECT Universe and among people potentially perfect. He will regulate his thinking to meet this necessity and refuse to believe in its opposite. At first he may be influenced by conditions, and he may appear weak, but as time goes on he will PROVE TO HIMSELF that his position is a correct one, for that which appears imperfect will begin to slip from his experience

  Ernest Holmes

  Believe, Thinking, Opposites

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.130, Penguin

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• Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection through the imperfect gestures of daily life. Its beauty consists in the respect with which it is performed. If a mere cup of tea can bring us closer to God, we should watch out for all the other dozens of opportunities that each ordinary day offers us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Simple

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• I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.

  Ron Paul

  Perfect, Messengers, Messages

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• Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

  Harry S. Truman

  Perfect, Action, Inaction

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