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21 " To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. "
― Alexander Pope
22 " You know I understand how you feel.... the loneliness that sets in....how empty your heart aches wishing you had someone near....to hold... to kiss and love. That type of passion poets write about...that person your souls yearns yet can not find....that love that all time will lie down and be still for.... but at last it feels ever more like a cruel joke and fickle fate which has no plans of happiness....we drudge on with our existence trying to make sense of it....then slowly you feel the light dim....till it blows out. You've set yourself in complete darkness, with no direction, fully immersing yourself in confusion, doubt and suffer. Feeding your starving desires with delusions; completely disabling your inner mind from seeing the ugly truth beyond the shattered reality. You look at yourself through a contaminated mirror, seeing what you want to see from a certain angle, completely ignoring the faults and imperfections hidden under the surface. I petty the day that will wash your fickle images, scattering your true colors to yourself not more... As I see through what you choose to hide. "
23 " Let us leave political questions to be decided by the powers concerned," Sir Ralph would say, " as we have adopted a form of government which forbids us to discuss our interests ourselves. If a nation is responsible for the faults of its legislature, what one can you find that is guiltier than yours? "
24 " Two simple ways to win a war against the world:First, find the faults within;Second, there is no war. "
― Kunal Narayan Uniyal
25 " One of the most difficult defilements of the spirit to deal with is the critical spirit. A critical spirit has its root in pride. Because of the 'plank' of pride in our own eye we are not capable of dealing with the 'speck' of need in someone else. We are often like the Pharisee who, completely unconscious of his own need prayed " God, I thank you that I am not like other men" (Luke 18:11). We are quick to see - and to speak of - the faults of others, but slow to see our own needs. How sweetly we relish the opportunity to speak critically of someone else - even when we are unsure of the facts. We forge that " a man who stirs up dissension among brothers" by criticizing one to another is one of the " six thing which the Lord hates" (Proverbs 6:16-19) "
26 " Thats the trick of growing up. Nothing stays the same." Hook sounded oddly sympathetic. " You see the faults in everything. Including yourself. "
27 " These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’ faults. Which may be farther put beyond dispute by the following demonstration: that whoever will examine the writings in all kinds, wherewith this ancient sect has honoured the world, shall immediately find, from the whole thread and tenor of them, that the ideas of the authors have been altogether conversant and taken up with the faults and blemishes, and oversights, and mistakes of other writers; and let the subject treated on be whatever it will, their imaginations are so entirely possessed and replete with the defects of other pens, that the very quintessence of what is bad does of necessity distil into their own, by which means the whole appears to be nothing else but an abstract of the criticisms themselves have made. "
― Jonathan Swift , A Tale of a Tub and Other Works
28 " We should always be grateful for the faults in our partner because if they didn't have those faults from the start, they would have been able to marry someone much better than us "
― Ajahn Brahm , Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?: Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life's Difficulties
29 " And then, of course, there was the sari itself. What a garment, Randy! There isn’t another outfit in the world that balances better the twin feminine urges to conceal and reveal. It outlines the woman’s shape but hides the faults a skirt can’t — under a sari a heavy behind, unflattering legs are invisible. But it also reveals the midriff, a part of the anatomy most Western women hide all the time. I was mesmerized, Randy, by the mere fact of being able to see her belly button when she walked, the single fold of flesh above the knot of her sari, the curve of her waist toward her hips. That swell of flesh just above a woman’s hipbone, Randy, is the sexiest part of the female anatomy to me. And I didn’t even have to undress her to see it. I was completely smitten. "
― Shashi Tharoor , Riot
30 " Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. "
31 " Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own. "
32 " Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. "
33 " Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. "
34 " I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. "
― Mahatma Gandhi
35 " I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game. "
36 " Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. "
37 " Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. "
38 " Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. "
