Imperfect Quotes
Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.
The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.
The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.
Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.
To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.
If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.
I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people.
It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one’s faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God’s church.
Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.
It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.
If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.
Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.
Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.
The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else.
While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.
To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past
It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity
I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.
Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood
The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.
God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.
In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?
All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.
