Faults Quotes - Page 34

I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.

Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.

We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.

It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it's generally my fault and not theirs.

Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.

About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues carried to extremity, may grow into a fault, and do great harm, still, it never can do so much harm as that horrible laxity and profligacy of speech which is a the root of half the quarrels, cruelties, and injustices of the world.

I've got plenty of arthritis. But if you keep moving, it won't bother you that much. That's why old guys stiffen up. They forget they have to get out of their chairs and do something. You let the moss grow over, it's your own fault.

I think I'm incredibly self-aware to a fault.

Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens.

I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.

Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry.

I'm competitive to a fault, so of course every week I'm just like, "I want to win, I want to do great."

You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault...

If I loved you, well that's my fault

I live in a universe in which blame doesn't exist. I don't believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.

Terrorists, oh I'm sorry, Fox News tells us it's all illegal immagration's fault but it's not their fault, it's ours.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren't their fault is a mystery to me. You didn't force that cocktail down his idiotic throat." -Jace, pg.241-

What you're blaming yourself for is being who you are. And that's no one's fault and nothing you can change.

Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?

A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.

Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people's religions, he is in a bad condition.