Imperfect Quotes - Page 9

• False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

  John Lubbock

  Happiness, Pleasure, Internals

  Sir John Lubbock (1909). “On Peace and Happiness”, London : Macmillan

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• This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Grace, Common, Action

  Jeremy Taylor, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “The Works of Jeremy Taylor”, p.53

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• Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Judging, Mankind

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• Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Perfect, Trying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.119, A&C Black

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• Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

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• Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Shame, Break, Weavers

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• The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Believe, Men, Sick

  Journal Intime 6 February (1877)

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• All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.

  P. D. James

  Believe, Law, People

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• A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Marriage, Men, Perfect

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• How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Regret, Memorial

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1846). “Memoirs and essays, illustrative of art, literature and social morals”, p.69

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• Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.

  Francois Fenelon

  Conquer, Weak, Fear Of Death

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• The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

  Frances Harper

  Two, Perfect, Soul

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.109, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Knowledge, Order, Details

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• Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

  Patch Adams

  Life, Science, Medicine

  Patch Adams (1998). “Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• There are great advantages to seeing yourself as an accident created by amateur parents as they practiced. You then have been left in an imperfect state and the rest is up to you. Only the most pitifully inept child requires perfection from parents.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Perfection, Parent

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• Living your problems and loving them like locked rooms is much different from denying them or capitulating to them. It is believing that God is with you in the imperfect, even disappointing circumstances of your life. It is saying to Him with faith in your heart.

  Steven Furtick

  Believe, Heart, Different

  Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.198, Multnomah

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• I don't think it's a matter of going back and having a review of our process. Our process is about as thorough as there can be. Is it imperfect? Yes. Is there risk? Yes, but we start with the fact that we have an American that's being held hostage and that American's life is in danger and that's where we start. And then we proceed from there.

  Chuck Hagel

  Life, Thinking, Risk

  "Lawmakers defend failed hostage rescue mission in Yemen" By Sara Fischer, www.cnn.com. December 7, 2014.

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• My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances.

  Julie Klassen

  Father, Mistake, Reality

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• I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow your gut. That's probably my biggest life lesson, follow your gut.

  Chris Wyse

  Life Lesson, Lessons, Failing

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• Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Might, Mass

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Errors, Revelations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.61, A&C Black

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• I know a few women younger than me who have careers and children, and so the burgeoning career and family happen at the same time. A few have said something like, "During dating, he was all about feminism. But now I have to ask him to help with the children, I have to ask him to do the dishes, and every time he does, it's like a favor. Where's the feminist I married?" That's theoretical feminism, not practical feminism. I don't think we're all where we need to be. I don't know if we will be in my lifetime. Life is imperfect. But interesting.

  Debra Monroe

  Children, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love Is, Imperfection, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1137, Delphi Classics

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• You can root for someone who's imperfect.

  Heidi Ewing

  Roots

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

  Amos Oz

  Dream, Fulfilled

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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