#defects

With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten? ↗

— Marcello Mastroianni

#argue #because #besides #course #defects

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects. ↗

— Colin Firth

#absolutely #care #change #defects #end

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#begin #characters #defects #dwell #engaging

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#also #defects #demand #enterprises #excel

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#associate #defects #faultless #much #should

Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our short sightedness. We don't see what we could be. We should be at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you're surrounded by people who say "I want mine now," you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#human-nature #potential-for-greatness #nature

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. ↗

— Voltaire

#defects #ends #makes #making #men

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#defects #existence #individuality #necessary

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#begin #characters #defects #dwell #engaging

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#concealing #cunning #defects #discovering #other