#fault

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#effect #fault #gives #hardly #him

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#another #fault #find #give #great

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#faults #financier #qualities

I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#any #control #cruise #directing #doing

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. ↗

— Joe Strummer

#cause #else #fault #hey #his

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#discern #enter #faults #god #ground

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#default #force #liberty #never #recovered

The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I think the media, current company excepted here, did not help in that regard because they confused the American people about what default actually meant. ↗

— Bill Johnson

#actually #american #american people #because #company

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox. ↗

— John Green

#augustus-waters #beautiful #cancer #cowpox #death

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love? ↗

— John Green

#love #promises #the-fault-in-our-stars #young-adult #love