Quotes About Faulty

#1. Were faulty embalming and premature decay a dead hypochondriac's worst fears?

E.V. Iverson

#2. The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your children. Kids need parents, not just another pal. This means being able and willing to say no, to challenge faulty thinking, and to expect accountability.

Steve Biddulph

#3. People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes ...

George Eliot

#4. Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.

Alice Dreger

#5. Grief. Death was not an intellectual conceit. It was an existential black hole, an animal riddle, both problem and solution, and the grief it inspired could not be fixed or bypassed like a faulty relay, but only endured.

Noah Hawley

#6. I can be tolerant of traffic jams and disorganization, faulty technology, miserable weather, and bland foods. People, however, require more than the cold, grudging favor of being tolerated. They require love.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#7. Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

William Feather

#8. Writing a novel mimics what we bring to our journey of life. God is the great editor who purges the faulty, the awkward, and all the bits that are just plain wrong, so the optimal story can finally emerge.

Denise M. Baran-Unland

#9. The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.

George Herbert

#10. Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.

John Masefield

#11. The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.

Barry Commoner

#12. This, it seems to me, is the lesson of the Bible: this affirmation of the importance of reflection, and of revision, enough revision to do away with the tired, old, even faulty laws.

Chinelo Okparanta

#13. One makes their own luck, good or ill ... and there are no guesses, merely faulty concentration.

Richard A. Knaak

#14. ideology signifies a phenomenon intermediate between a simple lie at one pole, and an error, which is the result of a distorted and faulty conceptual apparatus, at the other.

Karl Mannheim

#15. Love's not a faulty toaster. You can't take it apart and study the pieces, replace a part and figure out how it all fits back together. You just feel it.

Nora Roberts

#16. We seem to be built with a faulty gauge for moderation.

Barbara Kingsolver

#17. We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Gene Roddenberry

#18. The faulty stands on his guard.

George Herbert

#19. It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.

David Rakoff

#20. I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

Herman Melville

#21. Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Plutarch

#22. Songs are built by whimsy, faulty memory, and free association.

Sting

#23. If the pulpit begins to propagate a faulty or erroneous value system, it ends up captivating the whole country, in no time like a cancer spreading throughout the body.

Sunday Adelaja

#24. The churches should be responsible for the faulty value system we now see in our society.

Sunday Adelaja

#25. Almost All Problem Areas Of Your Life Are Caused By Faulty Belief Systems. You Are The Cause Of Your Problems And You Are The Solution To Your Problems.

John Kehoe

#26. Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#27. I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.'

Lili Taylor

#28. It's really interesting that, in 'The Avengers,' the character that people relate to is The Hulk, and I think the reason why they relate to The Hulk is because he's fragile and human and faulty.

Chris Pine

#29. No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

Brendan Myers

#30. The connection between my mouth and brain are faulty, as usual, and I shout, "Exit only! It's exit only!

Helena Hunting

#31. Steel identifies what he calls two faulty believes: first, that life should be easy, and second, that our self-worth is dependent on our success.

Daniel J. Levitin

#32. Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable.

John Masefield

#33. An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

Edward Weston

#34. Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player sees the winning idea, plays the winning sacrifice and then inverts the order of his fellow-up moves or misses the really clinching point of his combination.

Fred Reinfeld

#35. Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

Albert Bandura

#36. The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

Warren Farrell

#37. The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#38. I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me know about that, and I'll be the first one to change it.

Gary Johnson

#39. It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

Kurt Vonnegut

#40. The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified. A painting of a murder is of no interest whatever; but a photograph of a murder fascinates everyone.

Gerhard Richter

#41. Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

Samuel Richardson

#42. Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.

William Shakespeare

#43. I'll never understand how really bad guys can communicate with just a series of small signals like that. I always have to explain everything in agonizing detail to get my minions to do my bidding. Maybe I have faulty minions.

Mary Elizabeth Summer

#44. Nearly every example of faulty reasoning that has been published is accompanied by the phrase "of course" or its equivalent.

Donald Ervin Knuth

#45. Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.

Austin O'Malley

#46. Never burn bridges. If it's a faulty bridge then close it off and let it fall on its own.

Gregor Collins

#47. Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.

Ambrose Bierce

#48. If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.

William Wilberforce

#49. Flo Hyman became America's best-known volleyball player with a faulty aorta, but she did not know it.

George Vecsey

#50. A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.

Johannes Kepler

#51. Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

Confucius

#52. God made us for Himself: that is the only explanation that satisfies the heart of a thinking man, whatever his wild reason may say. Should faulty education and perverse reasoning lead a man to conclude otherwise, there is little that any Christian can do for him.

A.W. Tozer

#53. There is simply too much injustice in the world. And too much remembering (of ancient grievances: Serbs, Irish) embitters. To make peace is to forget. To reconcile, it is necessary that memory be faulty and limited.

Susan Sontag

#54. Which is him? The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

Mark Twain

#55. My wife noticed that I wrote really good complaint letters about faulty products and that I could get anything I wanted out of these big corporations, and she said that I was a good writer and that I should go to my dad and ask him for help.

Brian Herbert

#56. A moral Agent is a being that is capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense, virtuous or vicious, commendable or faulty.

Jonathan Edwards

#57. This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas?

R.D. Ronald

#58. Most marriage problems are not really marriage problems, they are God problems. They can be traced back to one, or both, having a poor relationship with God, or a faulty understanding of him. An accurate picture of God is vital to a healthy marriage. It's vital to everything.

Francis Chan

#59. Oh my God, calm down, Darwin. Don't get all crazy just 'cause I threw a vampire monkey wrench in your faulty Jesus-zombie logic.

Jenny Lawson

#60. As far as I can ascertain the reasons for missing a rising fish come from faulty reactions. When we miss a fish we are either too fast or too slow

Ray Bergman

#61. Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#62. If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

Saint Augustine

#63. Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

Judith Butler

#64. ...pride is a faulty wire that will ultimately burn you.

E.K. Blair

#65. Sophie wondered when was she going to learn that lots of things seem like a good idea but a small amount of analysis might uncover that such seemingly good ideas are, in fact, intrinsically faulty.

Gayle Forman

#66. I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

Michel De Montaigne

#67. Many cultures accept the faulty nature of memory. They know even the photograph only gets it halfway right. They believe there is only one way to bring the dead back to life, story.

Jon Chopan

#68. ...But it's a faulty premise, built on the notion that you can choose where your mind goes. Or where your heart goes.

Andrea Cremer

#69. 60 percent of all management problems are the result of faulty communications.

John C. Maxwell

#70. It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.

Phil Angelides

#71. I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate

Doris Lessing

#72. I looked over at him, running in the distance. Another faulty, fucked-up brain in a healthy body.

S.J. Watson

#73. If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels tha pai. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.

Chanakya

#74. A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

Joan D. Vinge

#75. Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality.

Paul Tournier

#76. To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.

Socrates

#77. They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.

Robert Browning

#78. Our memories are not simply faulty; they are faulty in favor of our ego.

John Ortberg

#79. I believe the sense of lost opportunity is rooted in a faulty understanding of God's grace. Likewise, when grace is grasped and embraced, the Land of Opportunity becomes yours again.

David Jeremiah

#80. This lack of fit between logic and statistically based decision is not something that can be accounted for by finding a faulty assumption in Cohen's paradoxes. It lies at the heart of what is meant by logic.

David Salsburg

#81. Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always faulty. You forked over the cash only to discover they'd fallen apart by the time you got home. But life kept at it. Life couldn't help it. Life was a compulsive salesman.

Glen Duncan

#82. True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.

Shusaku Endo

#83. For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an enormous hunger for brotherhood. They are ready for the twenty-third century now, and they are light-years ahead of their petty governments and their visionless leaders.

Gene Roddenberry

#84. A successful man never allows his faulty of discrimination and judgement to be distributed by the rising tides of his emotions.

Gian Kumar

#85. It occurs to me that my thinking has been faulty: we do not feel God's absence. We feel the absence of all that is lost to God, that which has set itself apart and refuses to return, believing itself to be in exile.

K.J. Bishop

#86. The worst thing about e-mail is that you can't interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back, pointing out all their mistakes and faulty assumptions. It's frustrating and it's time-consuming. God bless phone calls.

George Carlin

#87. I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

Terry Gross

#88. People change, they have faulty memories, gratitude for past generosities fades.

Mario Puzo

#89. Much of online dating, Finkel and company argued, is based on the faulty notion that the kind of information we can see in a profile is actually useful in determining whether that person would make a good partner.

Aziz Ansari

#90. We are faulty and there is no need to bother trying to correct our flaws. We are so defective and so mismatched to our environment that we can just work around these flaws. I

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#91. She's a human being, just like me. Frail and faulty and flawed, capable of making the most heinous mistakes and inflicting the most severe pain. But equally capable of the greatest love.

Sarah Ockler

#92. I really wanted to believe that there were these magic celestial bodies that would direct my life, tell me what to do, and it turns out it's not stars, it's some bits of screwy DNA. I'm just meat with faulty programming.

Lauren Beukes

#93. After half an hour the Senora emerged, short of breath, with flushed cheeks....as uf she'd been seized and shaken like a faulty thermometer.

Helen Oyeyemi

#94. Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#95. Thanks to a plethora of cognitive biases, faulty heuristics, and common fallacies of thought, you are probably deluding yourself minute by minute just to cope with reality.

David McRaney

#96. more needful that my heart should swell with loving admiration at some trait of gentle goodness in the faulty people who sit at the same hearth with me, or

George Eliot

#97. Memory seems as faulty, as misunderstood and misguided, as every other thought or spasm that passes through us.

Amy Bloom

#98. One of those cases where you couldn't just fold. God, across the table of Fate, was picking His nose, scratching His ear, laying on tells with a prodigal hand, it had to mean something, and a faulty guess would be better than none.

Thomas Pynchon

#99. Calamity-ville horror plagued by mold and termites and a faulty foundation.

Tracy Brogan

#100. Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.

Aaron T. Beck