Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Fender

I was always able to see the defects in the design of an instrument which overlooked completely the need of its maintenance.

Laura DiDio

If you get the kids young, they are less likely to defect to Apple.

Robert Bohn

The impact of lean initiative has been our operating margins have improved ... and defects have gone down.

Lance Henriksen

I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

Jacques Maritain

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

Phil Crosby

If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

Honore de

They must have the defects of their qualities.

Saul Kripke

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

Tony McCoy

When I'm injured, I eat everything - proper junk. That's the one thing about being injured so much, I get to treat myself.

Margie Achman

We try to meet every injured soldier as they come in.

Nancy Williams

He was the only one who wasn't injured that time - he's been lucky, twice.

Steve Barker

I mean, no one was injured in this.

Corey Koskie

I'm disappointed that I got injured and I'm disappointed in the year I had. I'm not upset over the trade.

Ted Lilly

The main thing is, it's not something that I can injure any further. I'd like to get on the mound one more time before Saturday.

Jose Diaz

We still have hope. There are so many places for the injured to be.

Kim Clijsters

Even when I was injured last year, when I started playing again, you get motivated,

Greg Skidmore

It's very interesting why that is. I think it's mainly because nothing high-profile has happened. Most of the people who have been injured and killed are not at major universities.

Rebecca West

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Saint Augustine

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

William Graham Sumner

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

William Hazlitt

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

Laurence Sterne

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

Cassandra Clare

Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.

Joseph Joubert

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

Oscar Wilde

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.