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How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?
John Maynard Keynes
There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
John Lancaster Spalding
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If I hadn't refused Ken Russell, Fellini and Spielberg and made their movies when they asked me, my life would be no different. It is not my fault that I accepted one movie and turned down another. I don't see any point in defending myself, either.
Klaus Kinski
We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us; sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.
Luc De Clapiers
There are no signs, There are no stars aligned, No amulets no charms, To bring you back to my arms. There's just this human heart. That's built with this human fault. What was your question? Love is the answer.
St. Vincent
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.
Martin Firrell
Synthetic life-forms were less than ten years old, the old android mechanicals less than sixteen; the faults of their systems were still being ironed out, year by year.
Brian Aldiss
It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
Samuel Johnson
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
John Mellencamp
Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
Vladimir Kramnik
If the world could remain within a frame Like a painting on a wall, Then I think we would see the beauty, then We would stand staring in awe At our still lives posed Like a bowl of oranges, Like a story told By the fault lines and the soil.
Conor Oberst
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: the manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation.
George Bernard Shaw
I am what I am I was made this way When I want to laugh Yes I shriek with laughter I love those who love me It's my fault If they're not the same That I love everytime I am what I am I was made this way What more do you want What do you want from me
Jacques Prevert
I love my beauty. It's not my fault.
Valentino Garavani
Our institutions are no good any more: on that there is universal agreement. However, it is not their fault but ours. Once we have lost all the instincts out of which institutions grow, we lose institutions altogether because we are no longer good for them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shakspeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven: but this does not refute my general assertion.
What a silly god, he makes everybody born bad to go to burning hell. Why so mad? All his fault!
Orson Scott Card
