Quotes About Blemish

#1. Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery, for which he's properly excoriated. So, I think [Louis] Brandeis has done this as well.

Jeffrey Rosen

#2. If you want to destroy something in this life, be it acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

Elif Safak

#3. All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.

Sathya Sai Baba

#4. It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.

Simonides Of Ceos

#5. To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

Saadi

#6. To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. Not so much wonderful as perfect," she replied. "Kind of flawless. More or less magnificent. Without blemish. Rather on the ideal side." She looked at the Prince. "Am I being helpful?"
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William Goldman

#8. Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#9. If you want to destroy something, be it a blemish, acne or the human soul, all you need to do is surround it with walls.

Elif Shafak

#10. 14Do all things without grumbling or disputing, 15that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

Anonymous

#11. You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Edgar Guest

#12. I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. I covered the scar with concealer every day because I wanted my body to be a flawless figurine, but this blemish would be with me forever.

Scarlet Risque

#14. I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.

Calvin Coolidge

#15. My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

Jude Law

#16. Sometimes, the truth comes out in ways you wish it didn't; all you can do is hope that someday you will be forgiven, that the blemish will be erased from the permanent record known as your soul.

Ted Michael

#17. In nature there's no blemish but the mind.
None can be called deformed but the unkind.

William Shakespeare

#18. I love watching YouTube makeup tutorials of girls who are so brave and show others how to blend in foundation on blemish-prone skin. I've considered creating my own YouTube tutorial for other girls just to show that everyone has these problems.

Keke Palmer

#19. In an organic system you don't waste anything. We need to educate the consumer to accept a tiny blemish on an orange.

Robert Patterson

#20. We Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.

Elizabeth I

#21. A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.

Confucius

#22. We all are originally sinners as Adam and in Adam, his leprosy cleaving faster to us than Naaman's did to Gahazai, so that even the infant, before it has seen the light of the world, has this blemish inherent in its unborn members.

John Wycliffe

#23. We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world sorrow.

E. M. Forster

#24. Callers who even more unconsciously blemish-scanned or nostril-explored looked up to find horrified expressions on the video-faces at the other end. All of which resulted in videophonic stress.

David Foster Wallace

#25. Is he really so wonderful, this Westley of yours?"
"Not so much wonderful as perfect," she replied. "Kind of flawless. More or less magnificent. Without blemish. Rather on the ideal side.

William Goldman

#26. "She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."

Charles Dickens

#27. Leave a mark, not a blemish.

Jessica Hagy

#28. Wagging tongues from prejudiced, sophisticated facade of show-off people can never blemish any honest, genuine, golden heart.

Angelica Hopes

#29. The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on memory.

Roshani Chokshi

#30. He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.

James Gleick

#31. In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

Benjamin Franklin

#32. Environmentalists blame the farmers for overdosing with pesticides, and the farmers blame the consumers for demanding blemish-free fruit.

William Alexander

#33. It seldom happens that a man, though extolled as a saint, is really without blemish; or that another, though reviled as a devil, is really without humanity.

Fanny Burney

#34. He is flawless, without a blemish. Majesic ... muscular.

Gail Carson Levine

#35. My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#36. To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.

William Tyndale

#37. If you want to stay perfect, you cannot go undefeated with a blemish on your record.

Emmitt Smith

#38. My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.

William Styron

#39. The Ten Commandments have lost their validity ... Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision ...

Adolf Hitler

#40. One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

Winston Churchill

#41. He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.

Charles Dickens

#42. Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

James McNeill Whistler

#43. Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.

Baal Shem Tov

#44. Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not
To wound the fame of princes, if it find
But any blemish in their lives to work on.

Philip Massinger

#45. I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation ...

Elie Wiesel

#46. That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer-even though it is used only when a strike threatens
the national health, welfare, or safety-is a grave blemish and explains much of union resistance to the Act.

Peter Drucker

#47. Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.

Thomas Jefferson

#48. What was happening here? He decided that children were what was happening here; that children served as a symbolic blemish, like a birthmark or obesity, which gave him a chance where previously there would have been none. Maybe children democratized beautiful single women.

Nick Hornby

#49. On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.

Ellis Hobbs

#50. God doesn't wait for us to get ourselves polished, shined, proper, and without blemish - God comes to us and meets us and blesses us while we are still in the middle of the mess we created.

Rob Bell

#51. Anyone who knew the recipe of the alchemists could make gold, but only the artisans of Murano could make glass so fine, one could nearly touch one's fingers together on either side; cristallo without an imperfection or blemish, clear as the sky, with a sparkle to rival that of diamonds.

Ruth Nestvold

#52. To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.

Saadi

#53. In linking holy and without blemish (or without blame) so closely, the Holy Spirit would have led us to seek for the embodiment of holiness as a spiritual power in the blamelessness of practice and of daily life.

Andrew Murray

#54. Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

Theodor Adorno

#55. Ignorance is a flaw and pride is another blemish caused by ignorance.

Bahman Solati

#56. But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it.

Iain Thomas

#57. I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.

Henry Miller

#58. A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.

Augustine Birrell

#59. Nostalgia is your brain's way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past.

Steve Maraboli

#60. Life is like the dirt we bury our dreams and fears in. It blemishes the way. As things tend to grow by the rain of our belief or doubts.

Anthony Liccione