Defects Quotes

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations.

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.

All authors to their own defects are blind.

We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.

...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.

Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.

All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses.

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

You know, Alix, men suck. Really. They are the worst. Come with me. I need an estrogen fix before their chromosomal defects contaminate me any further. (Zarina)

There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.