#defects

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. ↗

— Herodotus

#correct #defects #few #few things #happen

Never judge a work of art by its defects. ↗

— Washington Allston

#defects #judge #never #work

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#among #christian #defects #fundamentalists #hundred

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#love #persons #qualities #reason #sometimes

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#even #fascinated #funnier #her #i

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. ↗

— Albert Camus

#accept #defects #exact #failures #far

They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#chronic #defects #deprived #error #had

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

#friends #know #merits #our #rather

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#love #person #qualities #reason #sometimes

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