Faults Quotes
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Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.
William A. Dembski
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Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault
Jimmy Buffett
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Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.
Lord Byron
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I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone.
Tiger Woods
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A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.
Napoleon Hill
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England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
William Cowper
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Cats are only human, they have their faults.
Kingsley Amis
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To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.
Confucius
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Her magic formula for dealing with children is ignoring all faults and accenting tiny virtues. She says, "Instead of telling Tommy day in and day out that he is the naughtiest boy in the United States of America, which could very well be true, take an aspirin and comment on his neatly tied shoes. Almost anybody would rather be known for expert shoe-tying than for kicking the cat." She always tells whiners how charming they are--bullies how brave--bad sports how good--sneaks how honest!
Betty MacDonald
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The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
Confucius
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The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.
W. S. Gilbert
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How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?
John Maynard Keynes
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Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.
Blaise Pascal
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Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great.
Bahá'u'lláh
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I got the idea for Netflix after my company was acquired. I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette. It was all my fault.
Reed Hastings
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The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.
William Shenstone
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Some directors don't tell you that it's not your fault, so you get increasingly depressed that you're not delivering what's required, and then you discover it's not you at all, it's something in the background that's out of focus.
Ian Mckellen
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The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.
Cesare Beccaria
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
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If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you. If you recognize it, your awareness will destroy it. He who rejects this will never know the entrance to the Temple.
R. A. Schwaller
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Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?
Confucius
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if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.
Naftali Bennett
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Best men oft are moulded out of faults.
William Shakespeare
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The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
William Hazlitt