Imperfection Quotes - Page 9

• We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Stupid, Selfish

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• humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Growing Up, Lying, Believe

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• I've made so many mistakes, so many corrections. I'm so far from perfect so many imperfections. But I'm a go getta I get up and go get it, so if you preaching prosperity, i wanna hit it.

  Curtis Jackson

  Mistake, Perfect, Prosperity

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• ...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.

  Salman Rushdie

  Memories, Shadow, Pickles

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.642, Random House

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• The eye always fills in the imperfections.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Eye, Perfection

  Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.243, W. W. Norton & Company

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• But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.

  Charles Darwin

  Lying, Believe, Theory Of Evolution

  Charles Darwin (2012). “On the Origin of the Species and The Voyage of the Beagle”, p.162, Graphic Arts Books

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• Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections.

  Susanna Clarke

  Cat, Reflection, Drs

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.636, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Mistake, Forgiving

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  I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy.

  Shane Koyczan

  Acceptance, Joy, Use

  FaceBook post by Shane Koyczan from Apr 08, 2013

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• As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?

  Hjalmar Branting

  War, Two, Risk

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• I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.

  Drew Barrymore

  Mistake, Life Lesson, Past

  "Drew Barrymore: People should shut up about my wild past, I’m proud of it". London Evening Standard Interview, www.standard.co.uk. August 24, 2010.

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• I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.

  Drew Barrymore

  People, Mind, Energy

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• A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.

  Drew Barrymore

  Meaningful, Pages, Messages

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• Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Healing, Ignorance, Decision

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• I don’t crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality.

  Anton Corbijn

  Reality, Helping, Kind

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• As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  United States, May, Irritated

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• Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Mirrors, Views

  "The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics". Book by John Brinckerhoff Jackson, p. 4, 1980.

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• So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.130, editionNEXT.com

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• The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Criticism, Finals, Attention

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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, Enemy, Vices

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

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• Where the perhapses are found something has to be done about it and since art deals in the perhapses & maybe sos why not call it the consummate science — which gets its perfection from seeming imperfection.

  John Marin

  Art, Perfection, Why Not

  "John Marin".

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• My imperfections will never override God’s promises. God’s promises are not dependent on my ability to always choose well, but rather on His ability to use well.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Promise, Use, Ability

  Lysa TerKeurst (2014). “The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands”, p.89, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

  Duke of Wellington

  Business

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• About 80 percent of the stuff I live with is old. I like letting things take on the character they’re meant to have by really being used. … when you own things that have the imperfections they deserve, that they’ve earned from a well-lived life, it frees you from feeling as though they’re untouchable.

  Nate Berkus

  Character, Feelings, Stuff

  "Nate Berkus: Why You Should Break the Rules When Decorating Your Home". Interview with Lisa Kogan, February 8, 2011.

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• I am not perfect. I just think that imperfections are beautiful.

  Lady Gaga

  Beautiful, Thinking, Perfect

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