(56 quotes found)
“William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of h”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.”
Philip Crosby
“If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.”
Francois Fenelon
“Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.”
P. D. James
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.”
Lillian Smith
“Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective”
Bertrand Russell
“Find out the cause of this effect,Or rather say, the cause of this defect,For this effect defective comes by cause.”
William Shakespeare
“We have not determined whether or not there is a defect in the first place,”
Rae Tyson