Defects Quotes - Page 2

Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and spiritual birth defects are the inevitable result.

Man is a robot with defects.

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

Ionizing radiation may well be the most important single cause of cancer, birth defects, and genetic disorders... The stakes for human health are very, very high in radiation matters. It is essential that people take no chance that conflict-of-interest is producing radiation databases which...cannot be trusted.

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

Talent is often a defect in character.

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

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.

I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.