Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

Life is messy and gloriously imperfect, and some signs of wear and tear indicate a well-loved, well-used home.

I realized we're all perfectly imperfect, which was a big thing. Perfectionism, to me, was an important thing.

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life.

To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.

I look at 'Straw Dogs' as a very imperfect movie. It's a little bit slow, and its themes are a little bit murky.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

I'm not perfect. I don't claim to be perfect. So, when people point out I'm imperfect, so what? That's just who I am.

I'll believe in utopia when I meet my first perfect person, and this community is made up of 70,000 imperfect persons.

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength

You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

In an imperfect world, full of imperfect leaders, there are countless statues that may not live up to our American values.

I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

If it was up to us every single day, then we would all have a perfect life, but stuff happens, but it's an imperfect world.

If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.

The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet

In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be ascertained.

I believe that trade is essential for economic growth and development around the world, but I also believe that trade is imperfect.

Our history is imperfect, but it has laid the groundwork for the greatest experiment in democracy the world has ever known: America.

Imperfect people are all god has ever had to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to him, but he deals with it. So should we.

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

The moment you achieve perfection, you are dead. The word exists because we are all imperfect. That is true about performance as well.

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.

When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.

The unmet need that can get met right now is the need to be whole, to be both your magnificent, divine self and your imperfect, human self.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

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