My first big disappointment is always, why don't I look like Julie Christie? Then I realise I don't look remotely like Julie Christie, and that's always a great sadness to me. Because I used to think I might have done, at one time. And I'm too fat. And I'm too old. You always see your faults, you see.
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
I recognize I have faults. I'm accountable for them, and I try to do what I can to correct them. I will say that it's unfortunate that everything I do is scrutinized to the point that it is. Frankly, I don't watch the news, I stay away from political conversations.
The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the faults.
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.
You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
Internet, for all its faults, exposed me to a lot more music.
Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.'
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.
We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.
I don't like people who hide things. We're not perfect, we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
DePaul's plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and destroyed my career because of my virtues. Which, although few in number, they still found threatening.
I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark times in my life to where I wasn't walking the walk and talking the talk, or I may have been talking the talk, but I wasn't walking the walk.
President Obama has his faults, but overall, I think, is a good president.
We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
I was told 'no' a lot when I first got to Nashville, but I'm pretty stubborn! That's one of my faults and qualities.
I've always, for whatever my faults have been, felt like I've never done anything halfway.
I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
The characters that I want to play are interesting women. I don't care if they're good women or bad women or vulnerable women or women with a lot of faults or women that we dislike intensely who are malicious.
You can't be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self and view on the world. That's what great actors have, too.
Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
The American public believes the Founding Fathers were close to infallible and that, while our political system has its faults, it functions far better than other democracies. But is it true?
