Imperfection quotes
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"When you are filming, you have to let the thing really open so you can bring more life and details into it and even look for some kind of imperfection. It's good to have a good script but then you must make a mess out of it, I think."
"Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity."
"Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either."
"There's something about the first time an actor runs the material over his or her face you know when they kind of run it through their eyes and you see the thing and there is little imperfections in it and not every line is delivered perfectly, and it doesn't have that mechanical feeling."
"There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!"
"Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves."
"And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results."
"Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts."
"Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave."
"In some basic way, it is our imperfections and even our pain that draws others close to us."
"With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?"
"With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist."
"To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections."
"Imperfection means perfection hid."
"Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature."
"The Trinitarian Christ is elevated above us; the Unitarian Christ is merely a moral man; neither can help us. The Christ who is the Incarnation of God, who has not forgotten His divinity, that Christ can help us, in Him there is no imperfection."
"I love imperfections."
"What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand."
"All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious."
"... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing."
