Imperfections Quotes

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection.

There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.

There's no need to be perfect to inspire others. Let people get inspired by how you deal with your imperfections.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

Perfection itself is imperfection.

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings with each other is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different forms of those republics which, having been formed with seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist.

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

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.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent compatible with my imperfection. I fell in love with Saint Francis of Assisi as soon as I came to know about him. I always believed and hoped that one day Fate would force upon me the condition of a vagabond and a beggar which he embraced freely. Actually I felt the same way about prison.

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

It’s a secondhand world we’re born into.

What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all.

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for.

For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us.

It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.