Defect Quotes

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

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.

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

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

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

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

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

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.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.