Faults Quotes - Page 19

• But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.

  Anthony Burgess

  Thinking, Discovery, Expectations

  Anthony Burgess (1980). “Earthly powers”, Simon & Schuster

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• There are certain people who will always seek to criticize. This has nothing to do with you. It must be hard to be inside their head, you know? I mean if they find so much fault in everyone around them... then one can only imagine the faults they must see in themselves.

  Hannah Hart

  Mean, People, Imagine

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• I wish I knew all the answers, how to be perfect, attractive and witty. But I'm just a human being with all the regular faults and it seems no matter how hard I try, I can't change that.

  Rebecca

  Witty, Perfect, Wish

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• Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

  Philip Sidney

  Plato, Light, Essence

  Sir Philip Sidney, Richard Bellings (1724). “The works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, kt. in prose and verse: In three volumes. ...”

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• Every song falls short of the glory of what a song could be. That's why the urge is there to start again and yet again. Often it's the fault of rhyme. I've discovered a hundred times that there just aren't enough rhymes to say what I wanted to say, so I said something else instead. Sometimes it was a better thing, but the thing I meant to say went unsaid. So there's an opening for another song.

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Fall, Sometimes

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• I was angry and frightened, and I was scared. I knew what I had done. The whole night is my fault. None of this would have happened if I didn’t drink.

  Kim Richards

  Night, Done, Scared

  "Kim Richards In Her Interview With Dr. Phil About Her Recent Arrest: ‘Is This An Intervention’?". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2015.

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• I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.

  Ronnie Wood

  Risk, Management, Rich

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• The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Caring, People, Capacity

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• To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot be ascribed by anyone to want of good luck, or attributed to fate; these words are devoid of sense, and all fault will rightly fall on your own head.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Fall, Passion, Good Luck

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• I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.

  Ben Horowitz

  Running, Mean, Ideas

  "HOROWITZ TELLS ALL: This Guy Just Raised A $1.5 Billion Fund". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I only see the faults, flaws, the imperfections. That attracts me.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Imperfection, Flaws

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• (about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Kissing, Years, Hug

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• In Republican fantasy world, everything is always Obama's fault. Somehow, he's weak and he's ineffective, and yet he pulls the strings on everything in the world.

  Bill Maher

  World, Fantasy, Republican

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• All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.

  Myron Scholes

  Mean, Decision, Tools

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• A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Practice, Born, Made

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• Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Opportunity, Giving, Suffering

  Anne Graham Lotz (2009). “Just Give Me Jesus”, p.164, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• "She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Want

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.326

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• I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.

  Charles Dickens

  Fire, Feelings, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.79

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• One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a fault but he wasn't reckless with his money, which was rather rare in Hollywood. He'd grown up with nothing and he wasn't about to fritter it all away.

  Jennifer Grant

  Dad, Mean, Hollywood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot add a cubit to one's stature, all striving and struggling are useless there, so one has to be silent about it, and let the responsibility rest with God.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Depressing, Struggle, Responsibility

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• There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Humble, Thinking, Ends

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Alchemy of Happiness”, p.134, Library of Alexandria

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• I learned from my mistakes, I was able to accept the things that were my fault and to be able to grow from that. You have to be able to see growth from your experiences and I've done that.

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Mistake, Growth, Done

  "EXCLUSIVE: LisaRaye Talks Single Ladies Season 2 and You-Know-Who Leaving". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. March 20, 2012.

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• I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive!

  Allan Sloan

  People, Looks, Whining

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• The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Poetry, World, Splendor

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• You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Virtue, Ifs

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