Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.
Defect-free software does not exist.
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.
I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike, to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature.
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
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