Faults Quotes - Page 13

• Some people think, Swami calls himself a powerful magnet, but He is unable to attract us. The fault lies in them only.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Powerful, Lying, Thinking

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• If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.

  Ramakrishna

  Men, White, Ugly

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna", p. 299, 1960.

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• Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Tears, Together

  Remarks at the Department of State, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 19, 2011.

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• Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

  Washington Allston

  Men, Idols

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.172, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

  John Calvin

  Charity, Insult, Should

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.33, Baker Books

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• If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated or gone insane. Suddenly, I just can't get anything into print. And apparently I'm not alone in this. There are people of very high standing, authors who are having problems. So I have been told. In my own case, the more disturbing element is the editor-in-chief who said to me, "I think this book is terrific. It ought to be in print. I can't publish it -- I've been told I mustn't." The indication is that I'm not writing what people want to read, but I never did.

  Tanith Lee

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Tanith Lee : Love & Death & Publishers", www.locusmag.com. April 1998.

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• To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and turns of underground cable. An all-too-perfect thing. Sometimes the lines get crossed. Or you get a wrong number. But that's nobody's fault. It'll always be like that, so long as we exist in this physical form. As a matter of principle.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Wrong Number, Ideas

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• A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Self, World

  Wyndham Lewis (1918). “Tarr”

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• The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.

  Joel Osteen

  Love, People, Healthy

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps we invented the gods so that we could put the blame on them. They gave us permission to eat flesh. They gave us permission to play with unclean things. It's not our fault, it's theirs. We're just their children.

  J. M. Coetzee

  God, Children, Play

  J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.41, Princeton University Press

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• Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others and I count myself among them are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.

  David Gemmell

  Taken, Men, People

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 23, May 1, 1988.

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• If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing which the king upon the throne cannot have.

  James Burgh

  Kings, Blessing, Thrones

  James Burgh (1794). “The Dignity of Human Nature; or, a Brief account of the certain and established means for attaining the true end of our existence ... By J. B. (James Burgh.)”, p.31

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• Blush at your faults.

  Dario Fo

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• Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Our no-fault insurance has removed our responsibility for car accidents, and no-fault divorce has removed our responsibility for marriage accidents; why should abortion not be our no-fault sexual insurance policy that removes our responsibility for sex accidents?

  Peter Kreeft

  Sex, Divorce, Responsibility

  Peter Kreeft (2002). “Three Approaches to Abortion: A Thoughtful and Compassionate Guide to Today's Most Controversial Issue”, p.64, Ignatius Press

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• If I hadn't refused Ken Russell, Fellini and Spielberg and made their movies when they asked me, my life would be no different. It is not my fault that I accepted one movie and turned down another. I don't see any point in defending myself, either.

  Klaus Kinski

  Different, Would Be, Accepted

  "Klaus Kinski: The Master of Screen Depravity Speaks". Interview with Ed Naha, Fangoria #28, July 1983.

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• Biodiesel seems to be the answer to a lot of our prayers. Not only can it help the U.S. economy, our unwanted dependence on foreign oil, and the gasping environment, it could also help the family farmers out of this tragic dilemma they have found themselves in through no fault of their own.

  Willie Nelson

  Prayer, Oil, Answers

  Willie Nelson (2007). “On the Clean Road Again: Biodiesel and the Future of the Family Farm”, p.37, Fulcrum Publishing

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• If I loved you, well that's my fault

  Conor Oberst

  I Loved You, Wells, Ifs

  Song: Lenders In The Temple, Album: Conor Oberst, 2008

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• You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault...

  Conor Oberst

  Mean

  "Soul Singer In A Session Band". Song by Conor Oberst, 2007.

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• The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

  John Rawls

  Mistake, Doctrine, Utilitarian

  John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.190, Harvard University Press

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• You'll say I'm self-destructive I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was crazy . And anyway it's over now Nothing left to say.

  Alicia Witt

  Crazy, Self, Tragedy

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• The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Men, Land, Feet

  "Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2009.

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• These hurts I have are my fault but I'm sure gonna learn from it and hopefully anyone reading this will too. The lesson: stay aware on a bicycle and look up the road in front of you at all times to make sure you can deal with what's coming and the condition of the road you're gonna be rolling down!

  Mike Watt

  Hurt, Reading, Rolling

  Personal Blog entry, www.hootpage.com. December 20, 2003.

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• The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite in its depth and consequence, but rests on a foundation of spirituality and aesthetics.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Foundation, Depth

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault.

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Men, Ifs

  YouTube Channel "gaybelarus"/"Lukashenko about gays and lesbians", www.youtube.com. December 04, 2011.

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• It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.

  Jim Butcher

  Motorcycle, Wheels, Huge

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.152, Penguin

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