Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Francis de Sales

Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness.

Saint Francis de Sales

It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.

Joseph Addison

The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.

Kevin Rudd

There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states.

Kesha

I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them.

Friedrich August von Hayek

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

Kathie Lee Gifford

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond

Patrick Rothfuss

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Pete Doherty

I’m vain because I’m imperfect.

Robin Ince

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

Joseph Addison

Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.

Mary Howitt

To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.

John Gay

Who talks much, must talk in vain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No.

Thomas Gray

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

Swami Vivekananda

Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.

Philip Sidney

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

Hosea Ballou

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.