Best 149 quotes in «imperfect quotes» category

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic.

The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete.

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

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

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

The imperfect is our paradise.

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

The death penalty serves no one. It doesn't serve the victims. It doesn't serve prevention. It's truly all about retribution....There comes a time when you have to ask if a penalty that is so permanent can be available in such an imperfect system. The only guarantee against executing the innocent is to do away with the death penalty.

the most terribly human moments - the ones we want to pretend never happened - are the very moments that make us who we are today. ... You are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.

The pacifist streak in German politics is a problem. But Greens and Social Democrats have to ask themselves: In an imperfect world, what do they prefer? The rise of the right or the success of the European project?

The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.

The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else.

Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.

To be sure, Darwin's theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom or to misrepresent well-established scientific propositions.

The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

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.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

To love beauty is to see light.

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.

We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

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

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

Who do you have to sleep with to get laid in this town?

When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.

Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.

You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.

DARE TO COMPARE If you're without imperfection, hurl the first insult at a challenged person Kamil Ali

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

...you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.

You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself

Your goal is to launch an imperfect product and let people laugh at you.

Accept yourself irrespective of your imperfection and express your skills.

All I have to say is - run, dive, pitch a tent... Spend hours on the phone with your best friend.... Wear bikinis. Drink tequila. Wake up in the morning happy for no good reason.... Lie in the grass, dream of your future, of your imperfect life & your imperfect marriage to your imperfect true love.... Because what else is there? Honestly, there's nothing else. Nothing else matters.

As we try to achieve perfection, society changes and we just become more imperfect

Doing our imperfect best means accepting that there will often be mistakes, flaws, and rough edges. These mistakes, flaws, and rough edges add to the beauty of who we are and provide us with the power to connect with others.

Every human being who loves another loves imperfection, for there is no perfect being on this earth--nothing is so simple as that.

Every political mean is imperfect.

Fantasy like thought that no man could rain Just let her reign Run wild with her unafraid Of any rain storms They only wash the mud away and make way For double rainbows and sunny days

Do not have expectations. We humans are created imperfect, which means that we have flaws

I am full of mistakes and imperfections and therefore I am real ...

Have you ever thought, how perfectly imperfect you are!

I do think imperfection is underrated