Failings Quotes

Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet.

Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren't taken seriously, we'll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.