#defect

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon. ↗

— Robert Lowell

#outgrow #soon #too #youth

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#allowances #another #beyond #defects #eye

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#activity #another #bearing #burdens #condition

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters. ↗

— John Major

#clever #could #defect #half #many

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

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#defect #dull #grave #perfection

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man. ↗

— Herman Melville

#brief #crying #deep #defect #help

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

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery. ↗

— Heidi Murkoff

#both #chances #defects #delivery #lower

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#chief #defect #doing #given #more