#fault

He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind. ↗

— Eric Metaxas

#focus #nature

Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#faults #nature #people #personality #predilection

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back? ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#failure #faultlessness #faults #human-nature #steadfastness

My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner ↗

— John Green

#john-green #the-fault-in-our-stars #cancer

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do. ↗

— Edward Albee

#happy #i #imperfect #leaves #me

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#conscience #fault #how #little #sting

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. ↗

— Antisthenes

#find #first #observe #out #your

I went out with Robbie Williams and Liam Gallagher. I was accused of going out with many different people but that wasn't my fault. ↗

— Nicole Appleton

#different #different people #fault #going #i

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#african #communities #fault #live #majority

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#his #man #misfortune #mother #wife