Faults Quotes - Page 36

• Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.

  Colin Quinn

  Crazy, Humanity, Who We Are

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• I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

  Branch Rickey

  Courage, Children, Want

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• It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Realizing, Cease

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• The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Talking, Mind, Desire

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• Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wish, Dangerous, Persons

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• We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Forgiving

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• I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.

  Ginger Rogers

  Girl, Men, Years

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• I might have faults but I'm not a big head.

  Wayne Rooney

  Might, Bigs, Big Heads

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• Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Kids, Ideas, Trying

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• I have 40 pounds to lose. It is not the fault of the fast food people, and anyone who's trying to sue the fast food places needs a therapist, not an attorney.

  Richard Simmons

  People, Trying, Needs

  "Live From..." with Candy Crowley, www.cnn.com. May 13, 2003.

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• Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.

  Mark Skousen

  Keys, Taught Us, People

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• I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Doors, Heaven, Church

  "History of the Church". Book by Joseph Smith, 5:517, 1932.

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• I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Writing, Self, Who I Am

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• If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Long, Fans, Needs

  "Exclusive: J. Michael Straczynski Talks About...well, Everything". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. February 1, 2011.

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• I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Character, Names, Stories

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• When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

  Joe Strummer

  Blame Someone, Hey, Causes

  Interview with Judy McGuire, Punk Magazine, www.punkmagazine.com. 2001.

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• It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter.

  Emma Thompson

  Mother, Daughter, Thinking

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• I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark times in my life to where I wasn't walking the walk and talking the talk, or I may have been talking the talk, but I wasn't walking the walk.

  Josh Turner

  Dark, Talking, May

  "On Track with Country Artist Josh Turner". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.

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• I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.

  Jesse Ventura

  People, Trouble, Saliva

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Jesse Ventura". Playboy Magazine Interview, www.weeklystandard.com. October 11, 1999.

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• I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kings, Thinking, Honor

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• We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Sports, Blood, Long

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• For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, People, Ordinary

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Book, Mean

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Passion, Heart

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.57, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Stars, Fate

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 134

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