Faults Quotes
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I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults; before production, I see only its virtues.
William Inge
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If you are looking for Christ in folks you will not be dwelling on their faults.
Charles E. Fuller
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A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.
Colin Cotterill
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What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
Dodie Smith
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Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.
Epictetus
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
Seneca the Younger
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But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you f****d up, everyone would know whose fault it was. What other sport not only kept a stat as cruel as the error, but posted it on the scoreboard for everyone to see? ... You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And trying hard, as everyone told him, was wrong, all wrong.
Chad Harbach
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You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
Israel Zangwill
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Yes, we have our faults. But because of this country, our world is definitely a better place. We are great.
Ainsley Earhardt
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Everybody has something wrong with them.
Ernest Hemingway
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The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.
Spider Robinson
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas Carlyle
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Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?
William Shakespeare
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At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.
George Washington
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If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.
Erica Jong
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The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.
John Calvin
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The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of his own, the object of odious tokenism.
David Bennun
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Blaise Pascal
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
Catullus
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Don't go telling yourself you're in love with the man he could be; you gotta love the man standing in front of you right now. Simply put, love the person not the potential! Otherwise, he will always be disappointing to you. And whose fault is that?
Niecy Nash
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Before making peace, war is necessary, and that war must be made with our self. Our worst enemy is our self: our faults, our weaknesses, our limitations. And our mind is such a traitor! What does it? It covers our faults even from our own eyes, and points out to us the reason for all our difficulties: others! So it constantly deludes us, keeping us unaware of the real enemy, and pushes us towards those others to fight them, showing them to us as our enemies.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.
Catherine Marshall
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I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.
Stevie Smith
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It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.
Norton Juster