#faults

Yesterday's faults become today's lessons. Today's dreams become tomorrow's reality. ↗

#faults #lessons #reality #today #tomorrow

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement." [Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech] ↗

— John Steinbeck

#exposure #failures #faults #improvement #writers

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#cemetery #every #every man #faults #friends

I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing? ↗

— Paul Begala

#ago #america #bill #bill clinton #clinton

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.' ↗

— Scott Thompson

#activism #comedy #damaged #faults #flawed

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. ↗

— Voltaire

#bandage #beloved #comes #conceals #faults

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#faults #forgiven #him #may #perfect

I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#far #faults #i #i am #perfect

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#conscience #coward #enough #faults #justice

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. ↗