#failings

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#each #failings #forgive #friends #little

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses. ↗

— Darin Strauss

#failings #friendship #friendship

There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren't taken seriously, we'll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#case #dealing #deficits #demands #euro

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. ↗

— Epictetus

#any #failings #fault #forget #man

Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#assign #dig #failings #happened #institutional

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#failings #inability #mankind #quiet #stay

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#bind #closely #could #failings #itself

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death. ↗

— Elijah Cummings

#beyond #black #carry #citizens #civil

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#each #failings #faults #find #follies