Faults famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
-- Aaron Levie -
We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook -
A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.
-- Abraham Verghese -
My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull -
Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
-- Ajahn Brahm -
When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
-- Akio Morita -
A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.
-- Albert Einstein -
I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.
-- Alexander Koch -
If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault.
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
-- Alexander Pope -
Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
-- Alexander Pope -
The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive!
-- Allan Sloan -
It's not Cam's fault," Bex told her. "We rigged her bed so that if she gets up, I get an electric shock." "Liz designed it," Macey said, and Bex shrugged "We told you we were taking precautions." Of course. Because at Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy".
-- Ally Carter -
When you have made a catalogue of your friend's faults it is only fair to supply him with a duplicate, so that he may know yours.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.
-- Andre Agassi -
It's not my fault being the biggest and the strongest. I don't even exercise!
-- Andre the Giant -
No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.
-- Andrew Tobias -
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
-- Anna Freud -
Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.
-- Anne Holm -
There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.
-- Anne Holm -
I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.
-- Anne Sexton -
If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Dance must have a precision without fault.
-- Arielle Dombasle -
If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.
-- Aristippus -
No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
-- Aristotle -
Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.
-- Arlo Guthrie -
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite in its depth and consequence, but rests on a foundation of spirituality and aesthetics.
-- Asger Jorn -
He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.
-- Augusto Pinochet -
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be.
-- Barack Obama -
The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
-- Barbara Mandrell -
We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.
-- Ben Stein -
I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.
-- Benjamin Britten -
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.
-- Beth Ditto -
The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.
-- Bill Barich -
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
-- Bill James -
Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
-- Bill Parcells -
If you're not a successful artist it's your fault.
-- Bob Lefsetz -
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
-- Boris Pasternak -
The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.
-- Brandon Mull -
It just broke my heart, and I had to get away from it. I love them to death, but they know how bad it got. It's not their fault, but I couldn't do that any longer.
-- Brian Welch -
The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.
-- C. S. Lewis -
A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.
-- Cameron Dokey -
I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
-- Camille Claudel -
Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?
-- Carol Plum-Ucci -
Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
-- Catullus -
The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.
-- Cesare Beccaria -
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense
-- Charles Churchill -
Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.
-- Charles Churchill -
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
If you are looking for Christ in folks you will not be dwelling on their faults.
-- Charles E. Fuller -
Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.
-- Charles Marion Russell -
I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.
-- Charles Peguy -
He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults.
-- Chris Hedges -
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.
-- Christopher Atkins -
For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.
-- Chungliang Al Huang -
It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.
-- Claude McKay -
I live in a universe in which blame doesn't exist. I don't believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.
-- Concha Buika -
The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
-- Confucius -
We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.
-- Cyrus the Great -
My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitches to swing at.
-- Daisy Whitney -
Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
-- Dale Carnegie -
Never insult someone's OTP, if they kill you, it's your fault.
-- Dan Howell -
Our time on earth is not well spent by counting rewards before God has given them to us, but rather, by looking for our faults and repenting of them
-- Dan Schilling -
I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.
-- Daphne du Maurier -
If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.
-- David Brooks -
Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.
-- David Graeber -
I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
-- David Lee Roth -
I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally become… This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.
-- David Malouf -
The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay the better you get to know the prospect, and the more you will be trusted.
-- David Ogilvy -
Still when it comes to finding fault we are fonder of windows than of mirrors.
-- David Wolpe -
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
-- Davy Crockett -
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults,
-- Dick Cheney -
I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault.
-- Dmitri Shostakovich -
That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.
-- Don Young -
The greatest sin of airline management of the last 22 years is to say, "It's all labor's fault."
-- Donald J. Carty -
If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.
-- Dorothy Day -
You only live once. If you don't enjoy it, it's your fault, nobody else's
-- Duncan Bannatyne
