#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

#defect #depends #grasping #judgment #many

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#friends #know #merits #our #rather

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#greatest #mankind #sickness

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects. ↗

— Jose Mourinho

#arrive #change #defects #i #i am

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#chief #defect #doing #given #more

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#economic #economic growth #equivalent #government #growth

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#children #competitive #credit #defect #fathers

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater. ↗

— Omar Sharif

#best #clarify #defects #following #i

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

— Lillian Smith

#cannot #concealed #defect #lack #ought

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality. ↗

— Mark Strand

#best #defects #exploits #i #i think