#imperfect

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we? ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#always #away #be happy #drama #dull

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#feel #hard #imperfect #looked #reasons

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#aggression #civilization #consequences #defend #even

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. ↗

— Alden Nowlan

#adult #becomes #child #day #forgives

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#been #carried #civil #considerable #founded

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

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#bear #done #else #even #imperfection

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#church #education #eminent #exhibition #gallery

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time. ↗

— Franz Boas

#currents #darwin #due #helped #hope

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. ↗

— Owen Feltham

#immutable #imperfect #perfect #perfection #them