Best 149 quotes in «imperfect quotes» category

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.

Beauty is only skin deep.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

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

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.

Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace.

I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.

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

I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are -- an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew.

I don't think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She's an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for reasons of her own tendency to get into a defensive crouch and create greater problems for herself and the rest of us by refusing to have a transparent reckoning.

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.

If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been.

Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.

I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Life is messy and gloriously imperfect, and some signs of wear and tear indicate a well-loved, well-used home.

I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

It's made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it's a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things are somewhat flawed.

[J.F] Kennedy's own accent was inconsistent. So people are inconsistent. And it always kind of irks me when people talk about inconsistent accents, because people are imperfect by nature. So in the end, what you do is, you do an inhabitation and not an imitation.

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

Is it truly so unfathomable, that an imperfect girl might be perfectly loved?

It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with sin; in comparison with which there can be no question whatever of mischief due to sin, for the merely gradual and imperfect unfolding of the power of the God-consciousness is one of the necessary conditions of the human stage of existence.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

People are imperfect, but that doesn’t mean they spoil like milk.

Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.