Imperfect Quotes - Page 19

• We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

  Helen Hunt

  Way, Reason, Feels

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• The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

  Jaron Lanier

  Interesting, Advertising, Sometimes

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• Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

  Alicia Machado

  Beauty, Mind, Lasts

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• You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Adversity, Imperfect World, Doors

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• Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

  Jose Marti

  Air, Essence, Wings

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• Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

  Edward Albee

  Happiness, Play, Faults

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• The general feeling is, if you don't treat everyone the same you're showing partiality. To me, that's when you show the most partiality, when you treat everyone the same. You must give each individual the treatment that you feel he earns and deserves, recognizing at all times that you're imperfect and you're going to be incorrect oftentimes in your judgment.

  John Wooden

  Giving, Feelings, Coaching

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• Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

  Toni Morrison

  Equality, Sisterhood, Rights

  Barnard College Commencement Address, May 1979.

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• The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Perfect, Grace, World

  "Siddhartha".

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• We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us what we did badly, it reminds us what we know we could do better.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Regret, Past, Imperfect Things

  "33% of Adolescents Regret Their Tattoos, Study Finds" by Derek Beres, bigthink.com. April 11, 2017.

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• We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. There is something missing from our public debates.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  Leadership, Achievement, Political

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• The death penalty serves no one. It doesn't serve the victims. It doesn't serve prevention. It's truly all about retribution....There comes a time when you have to ask if a penalty that is so permanent can be available in such an imperfect system. The only guarantee against executing the innocent is to do away with the death penalty.

  Jeanne Woodford

  Guarantees, Prevention, Death Penalty

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• The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

  Brock Yates

  Confused, Confusion, Car

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• We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to live one's life. And here we are now, today, still struggling. Still trying to sort things out. Still trying to work our way through life effectively. About the only thing that has changed is the scope of the problem. There's more at stake now. And we're in a position, as grownups, to do a lot more-good or bad-for ourselves, our organization, our world. But we still must wrestle with our imperfect ethics.

  Price Pritchett

  Life, Pain, Struggle

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• Unsolicited redesigns are terrific and fun and useful, and I hope designers never stop doing them. But as they do so, I also hope they remember it helps no one - least of all the author of the redesign - to assume the worst about the original source and the people who work hard to maintain and improve it, even though those efforts may seem imperfect from the outside.

  Khoi Vinh

  Fun, Hard Work, People

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• I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Work, Men, Perfect

  Alexander Hamilton (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793”, p.435

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• I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

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

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• Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide in God's presence. Therefore they look to Christ as the one who bears the iniquity of their holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds from their duties and makes them acceptable to God.

  John Owen

  Weed, Prayer, Add

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• We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

  Joyce Meyer

  Imperfect World, People, Surround

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• [T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

  George Washington

  Foundation, Empires, Constitution

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1847). “pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789”, p.184

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• Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

  William James

  Mean, Language, Communicate

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• I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

  Julianne Moore

  Mistake, Self Esteem, Real

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• It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune. This necessity however exists; and the problem to be solved is, not what form of Government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

  James Madison

  Government, Evil, Perfect

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

  Ronald Reagan

  Humble, Government, Order

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in mental space. They can therefore see, as others cannot, the cracks and buttresses of repeated action, the points of stress, the established framework. They are not perfect; but they are less imperfect than we by a full dimension of being.

  Robert Grudin

  Life, Stress, Future

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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