Blemished Quotes

#1. You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

Elspeth Huxley

#2. You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.

Sam Keen

#3. I'll bring boys home if I haven't cleaned my apartment.
I'll let them see the dishes in my sink,
the mascara rubbed into my pillowcases,
my unswept floors. Think, if we are seeing each other
undressed and blemished from the sun,
what is a dirty fork?

Kristina Haynes

#4. The common soldiers did not blame him for his excessive grief. They knew him. They knew his flaws. Indeed, I think they loved him all the more because he was flawed, as they were, and did not hide his passionate, blemished nature.

Geraldine Brooks

#5. Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

Martin Luther

#6. We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved.

Jim Crace

#7. We're all a blemished spirit full of censurable faults

Netiera Danise

#8. It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

Eric Hoffer

#9. I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.

Brian Bosworth

#10. The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the morality is blemished.

Kedar Joshi

#11. To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

Eric Hoffer

#12. The moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

Anita Desai

#13. Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.

Ian McEwan

#14. SITUATION False teachers have always blemished the church. The false teachers in the Ephesian church did not believe Jesus was really human. They contradicted Scripture while appearing to be self-disciplined and morally righteous.

Max Lucado

#15. Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

Michael Arndt

#16. I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

Siobhan Fahey

#17. It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

Robert Henri

#18. You should be allowed to scream in public whenever a conversation gets really awkward. And then time could reset itself and you get a do-over.

Danielle Vega

#19. You can run but you can't hide from a face reader.

Richard Lacey

#20. The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#21. You can't just wish for a better life, you must go out there and create it.

Joel Brown

#22. Don't waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.

Mandy Hale

#23. What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.

Jinkx Monsoon

#24. If we say, 'Oh, my goodness ... we think we've found another Earthlike planet,' we will start trying to figure out how to get there. And I have this strong belief that whatever we think we can do, whatever we can dream, we can do.

Morgan Freeman

#25. It's been an amazing life. It's really just been the most magical thing for me - and I have these musical friends from all walks of life.

Mavis Staples

#26. Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could be very influential on you, and that could send you down a different track in life.

Jonathan Haidt

#27. One of the staples of discussion about basic aesthetic principles is that art has to exist for its own self and cannot be prostituted to advance any particular cause or point of view. Perfect nonsense, of course, but that doesn't keep it from being repeated ad nauseam.

Douglas Wilson

#28. A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

William Wordsworth

#29. Storm leans towards her and says in a teaching voice, "Joyans consider it is rude to express one's true opinion unless it is unequivocally flattering."
Her brow furrows. "Then how do the express anything at all?

Rae Carson