Imperfect Beings Quotes

#1. We are imperfect beings in a very imperfect world, and the one thing we can count on is that things will go wrong, and that each and every one of us will have problems.

Bob Parsons

#2. A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

Francois Fenelon

#4. Her face may be as smooth as an onion; but the beauty of a woman is in the spirit she possesses and in the principles of righteousness she cherishes.

Heber C. Kimball

#5. When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy!

Barbara Conelli

#6. The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#7. And they're also very foolish, because no human being can ever make another human being completely happy. Human beings are far too imperfect for that.

Sylvain Reynard

#8. Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. There are women in every genre having a lot of success. Why not celebrate that?

Sarah McLachlan

#10. Education is realisation of our true potential

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Eighty million steel juggernauts, operated by imperfect human beings at high speeds, are more destructive than war.

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. As imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!

Brenda Jackson

#13. If you kill him, call me. I'm bound by doctor client privilege.
Really?
No, but the courts make exceptions for assholes.

Alex Adams

#14. We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

Margaret Halsey

#15. I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.

Gary Carter

#16. All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.

Haruki Murakami

#17. Hearing anyone think that I'm any form of sexy or handsome is incredibly flattering.

John Krasinski

#18. The god who presides over the Judeo-Christian belief system bears a disquieting resemblance to those imperfect creations known as human beings. This suggests that either he really did fashion us in his own image or we fashioned him in ours.

Michael Parenti

#19. I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His doctrine is pure. But He works through us - His imperfect children - and imperfect people make mistakes.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#20. I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#21. For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.

Virginia Woolf

#22. We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.

Joan Didion

#23. People are not totally good or bad, black or white - unless we are talking of evil psychos.
We, human beings, are somewhere between angels and demons. That is what makes us, human beings, lovely imperfect.

Cristiane Serruya

#24. One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

Pablo Picasso

#25. Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.

Bob Parsons

#26. Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the the Bible is merely a collection of imperfect books written by highly fallible human beings.

Sam Harris

#27. Please look at the imperfect human being God gave to love you once, and try to like me a little for what I really was, or, God willing, am. Then please, darling, become an imperfect human being among imperfect human beings again."
"Jenny

Kurt Vonnegut

#28. Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human
and by that I mean imperfect
beings.

Martha Beck