Quotes with imperfect

  • Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
  • Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Joseph Addison It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Anne Bronte There is always a "but" in this imperfect world.
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Benjamin Rush Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Anna Quindlen Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • William Lyon Phelps God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • Abraham Cowley Here tears and sighs speak his imperfect moan, In language far more moving than his own.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Branford Marsalis Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Bella Abzug Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.
    Bella Abzug
    American lawyer and politician (1920 - 1998)
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  • Charles Dickens In this world a great deal of the bitterness amongst us arises from an imperfect understanding of one another.
    Speech Birmingham’s Town Hall 30 december 1853
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bob Parsons Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.
    Bob Parsons
    American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • James A. Froude Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Owen Felltham Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
    Owen Felltham
    English writer (1602 - 1668)
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  • Salman Rushdie The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Raymond Chandler The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Benjamin Whichcote The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
    Benjamin Whichcote
    British philosopher (1609 - 1683)
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