Imperfect Quotes - Page 22

• I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Love You, Promise, I Can

  Sabrina Jeffries (2012). “'Twas the Night After Christmas”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Fall, Men, Favors

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.58, Hackett Publishing

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• Partial examination will result in partial views of truth, which are necessarily imperfect; only careful comparisons will show the complete mind of God.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Views, Mind, Examination

  Arthur Tappan Pierson (1910). “Knowing the Scriptures: Rules and Methods of Bible Study”

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• Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

  Russell Kirk

  Mean, Law, Understanding

  Russell Kirk (2014). “The Roots of American Order”, p.118, Open Road Media

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• No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.

  Lokendra Singh

  Men, Perfect, Persons

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• The world, Govinda my friend, is not imperfect, not to be seen as on a slow path toward perfection: No, it is perfect in every moment, all transgression already bears grace within itself, all little children already have the aged in themselves, all the sucklings death, all the dying eternal life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Perfect, Grace

  Hermann Hesse (2007). “Siddhartha”, Fine Communications

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• Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Matter, Foolish, Aesthetic

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• I've been an imperfect servant of my country for many years. But I have been her servant first, last and always. And I've never lived a day, in good times or bad, that I didn't thank God for the privilege.

  John McCain

  Country, Years, Thank God

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 4 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so long as those forces affect the political behaviour of mankind there can be no hope of abiding peace.

  Christopher Dawson

  Imperfect World, Long, Evil

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• The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Mother, Children, Father

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• God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Perfect, Spirit, Courageous

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• A role model is an imperfect person, not a perfect person, because that's who we are as real people.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Real, Imperfect Person, People

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt Talks THE CLIENT LIST, Using Social Media, and Directing the Season Finale". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 4, 2012.

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• The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy.

  Matt Chandler

  Book, Years, Profound

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• It is important to remember that value investing is not a perfect science. It is an, with an ongoing need for judgment, refinement, patience, and reflection. It requires endless curiosity, the relentless pursuit of additional information, the raising of questions, and the search for answers. It necessitates dealing with imperfect information - knowing you will never know everything and that that must not prevent you from acting. It requires a precarious balance between conviction, steadfastness in the face of adversity, and doubt - keeping in mind the possibility that you could be wrong.

  Seth Klarman

  Adversity, Reflection, Knowing

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• [The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Inspire, Vices

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.372, Wordsworth Editions

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• To be sure, Darwin's theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom or to misrepresent well-established scientific propositions.

  Jon Jones

  Theory Of Evolution, Facts, Alternatives

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• In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost era of Broadway greatness, not to worry. Somebody is still singing them with purity and passion. She is Barbara Cook, and she sings them for the angels to applaud.

  Rex Reed

  Passion, Angel, Greatness

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• People are imperfect, but that doesn’t mean they spoil like milk.

  Veronica Rossi

  Mean, People, Milk

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• Imperfectios equal beauty. We are all imperfect.

  Miley Cyrus

  Equal

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• There's imperfect food out there that just needs a mouth to bite into it.

  Dana Cowin

  Needs, Mouths, Bites

  "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.

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• If, as consumers, we can change our mindset so that we see gnarled, twisted, lumpy or otherwise imperfect produce as beautiful, we can create demand, change the system and ultimately help feed the world.

  Dana Cowin

  Beautiful, World, Demand

  "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.

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• Nearly 40% of all food in this country is wasted, and there are over 49 million food-insecure people in the United States. Clearly we have an enormous opportunity if we can find a way to retrieve the imperfect food and to feed the hungry.

  Dana Cowin

  Country, Insecure, Opportunity

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better.

  Dana Cowin

  World, Accepting, Ifs

  "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.

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• Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.

  Peter Prange

  Ignorance, Fighting, May

  Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

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• Pardon me, O perfections of my God, for having preferred imperfect and evil inclinations to Thee! Pardon me, O justice of my God, for having outraged Thee by my sins. Pardon me, O holiness of my God, for having so long stained Thy sight's purity by my sins. Pardon me, O mercy of my God, for having despised so long Thy mercy's voice. In deep sorrow and contrition, I cast myself at Thy feet: Have mercy on me.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Forgiveness, Voice, Feet

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