27 Defect Quotes for You to Enjoy

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. C. S. Lewis

Faith People Passion Christ Some People Our Guilty Some About Take Share Feel Like Sins Afflictions Anxieties Regard Them Defect

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. Lao Tzu

You Virtue Understand Realize Defect

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. Saint Teresa of Avila

Needs Care Our Finds More Comforts Provided Body Defect Desires

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate. Chaz Bono

People Complicated Gender Transgender Birth Alignment Those Percent Neurosis Like Brain Body Your Your Body Palate Things Defect

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character Change Circumstances Repair Defect

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. Georg C. Lichtenberg

Sickness Greatest Mankind Defect

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. Lu Xun

Time Fault Without Conclusion Coming Suspicious Defect

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. Thomas Fuller

Thoughts Memory Judgment Nothing Complain Others Our Retain Very Depends Order Want Much Regularity Many Grasping Defect

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. W. Somerset Maugham

Apt Perfection Dull Grave Defect

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. John Henry Newman

Corruption Evil Own Only Excess Substance Which Perversion Defect

Most people make poor partners because their mental script has a defect. They believe focus means looking after their own interests. It's a script error. Shiv Nadar

People Focus Looking Own Believe Mental Most Make Partners Because Error After Script Poor Interests Means Defect

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above. Czeslaw Milosz

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Character Weakness Only Amended Cannot Which Defect

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another. Fred Brooks

Problem Introducing Maintenance Another Fixing Substantial Fundamental Defect Chance Program

Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe. George Papandreou

Good Gift Opportunity Nation Solidarity Has-Been Given More Fact Good Thing Taken Steps Fiscal Been Greece Begin Fix Did Process Euro Union Europe Now Thing Defect Zone

What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain. John C. Calhoun

Great Character Respect Independence Men Country Great Britain Marked Our Earth All Things Above Between Most Real Exists Contrast America Want Public Things Defect Britain

Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature. Lars Onsager

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. Lillian Smith

Overcome Ought Concealed Lack Cannot Belief Defect

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. Max Beerbohm

Quality Easier Claim Than Confess Defect

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect. Roberto Cavalli

Myself Blessing Everything Also Terrible Always Deciding Used Defect

I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope. Shaun White

Hope Crazy You Heart Son Inspire Same Thing Our Saw Kind TV Give Mail Had Stuff Like Well Because Dealing Yes Get Same Just Mean Cool Cool Thing Letters Thing Defect

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. Thomas Aquinas

Nature Woman Sex Power Active Seed Perfect Individual Tends Masculine Likeness Male Regards While Production Defect Defective

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