Imperfection Quotes - Page 3

• No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.

  William Shakespeare

  Reckoning, Made, Hamlet Death

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 74

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• As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

  Ernst Fischer

  Greatness, Men, Perfect

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• As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

  Hugh Laurie

  Hate, Real, Drama

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• Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.

  Joseph Butler

  Passion, Order, Needs

  Joseph Butler (1839). “The Whole Works of Joseph Butler ...”

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• I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.

  Sonam Kapoor

  Thinking, Perfect, Add

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

  Juvenal

  Failing, Theft

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• There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Deformity

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.82, William Butler Yeats

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• The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

  Ben Okri

  Perfection, Facts, Hints

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• The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.

  George Santayana

  Fate, Perfect, Lines

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.17, MIT Press

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• Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivation, Axes, Perfection

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• All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Mistake, Errors

  John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.171

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• There is always a but in this imperfect world.

  Anne Bronte

  Imperfect World, A Perfect World, World

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

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• The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.

  Joseph Campbell

  Perfect, World, Lovable

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.3, Anchor

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• We like the imperfect because it reminds us of ourselves.

  Randy Bachman

  Perfection, Imperfect

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• Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Upset, Weakness, Surrender

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• The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Perfect, Grace, World

  "Siddhartha".

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• There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

  H. G. Wells

  Engineering, Bridges, Iron

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.79, H. G. Wells

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• I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.

  Miley Cyrus

  Mom, Mother, Role Models

  "Miley Cyrus talks about 'the trust thing' and being a role model to young girls". Entertainment Tonight Interview, celebritybabies.people.com. January 18, 2008.

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• Love yourself. Nobody's perfect. I mean, come on, nobody is perfect. Not you, not your mom, even the people on TV - nobody is perfect, and there's always something that nobody likes, but you know, you just accept that. Your imperfections make you beautiful. It's those things you find you don't like that someone else finds very special and very unique about you.

  Keke Palmer

  Beautiful, Mom, Love Yourself

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• If you see faults in others, look the other way. Don't linger on imperfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Looks, Way

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• The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Needs, Release, Shortcomings

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• To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Perfect, Littles, Helping

  "Imperfection". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.

  Francois Fenelon

  Heaven, Way, Bears

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• We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Perfection, Catholic, Affection

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales”, p.15, Aeterna Press

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• I began to realize that life, despite moments of happiness and joy, is really about discovering priorities and dealing with unforeseen vagaries, differences, obstacles, inconveniences, and imperfections.

  Maureen McCormick

  Differences, Priorities, Joy

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