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The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union. — J. Michael Straczynski

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings. — Edith Wharton

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing. — Robert A. Heinlein

I nearly said something, but then thought better of it. It doesn't pay to publicly point out the failings of the person providing your paycheck. — Donald G. Firesmith

It's a known fact that in certain contexts people's great strengths become their epic failings. — A.S.A Harrison

I had sucked on the tit of disillusionment and teethed on the bitter root of cynicism. I was on the way to the misanthropy that would sour me. — Norman Lock

How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings. — Krista Tippett

I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules. — Lionel Shriver

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers. — Hun Sen

Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia. — Larry Sanger

We must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be. — Alexander McCall Smith

Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that. — Dan Aykroyd

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector. — Thomas Woods

Loosely translated Der schlechte Affe hasst seinen eigenen Geruch means that people are most deeply offended by moral failings that mirror their own. — Matt Ruff

Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool. — John Podhoretz

Don't let your failures define you.
Let them refine you. — Callie Khouri

I'd already figured out that not understanding my failings was another one of my failings. — Melissa Bank

The more she tried to live a perfect life for God, the more she recognized her failings. — Francine Rivers

Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers. — Arthur Cheney Train

We all have our strengths and our failings. — Hannah Simone

Whatever your destination, you will be followed by your failings. — Ronald W. Pies

For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness — Carl Sagen

Three of the greatest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance. — Thucydides

Do not focus on your failings, for you will only encourage them. If you keep beating yourself up on the head over these, you will only reinforce them. — Stephen Richards

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. — Rupert Sheldrake

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven. — William Makepeace Thackeray

It was not edifying to dwell on the failings of others. — Alexander McCall Smith

Death is within anybody's grasp. The greater challenge is to live, and to love despite our error's and failings. — Grace Burrowes

Somewhere out there is someone who wants exactly the kind of person you are, complete with all the flaws and failings you come with. — Richard Templar

Only the Liberal Democrats have probed the government's failings consistently, thoroughly and effectively. — Charles Kennedy

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own. — Samuel Johnson

How dare you accuse me of your own failings?" Laurana returned. "I love Elistan. I reverence him. — Margaret Weis

When people reproach us, they only increase their own failings even as they are disclaiming them. — Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

A practised liar gets good at noticing the failings of those with less practice. — Mark Lawrence

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings. — Samuel Johnson

Surely you can see the failings of the system. Inequality, injustice, unfairness, and exploitation-- — Allan Dare Pearce

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. — Luc De Clapiers

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. — John Sculley

Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings. — Kameron Hurley

Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart. — Charles Dickens

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Sing of my deeds
Tell of my combats
How I fought the treacherous demons
Forgive my failings
And bestow on me peace — Phoolan Devi

Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike. — Theodore Dalrymple

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. — Paul Theroux

Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings. — Danielle Steel

Really not much sense of humor, though. Well, there were worse failings. Grabbing a girl's bosom when she wasn't expecting it might be one of them. — Stephen King

Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself. — Saadi

A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher — John Newton

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up. — Desmond Tutu

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am. — Emma Thompson

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings. — Tami Hoag

On the other hand, she was disproportionately indulgent towards the failings of men, and was often heard to say that these were natural. — George Eliot

One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them. — Josh Marshall

She comforted him in his darkness and gave him hope. She seemed to cherish a sincere affection for him, despite his failings. 'She saved me'. — Sylvain Reynard

In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony. — Mordecai Richler

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length. — Jim Crace

One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is. — Stuart Pearson Wright

Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired. — Nancy Friday

This is a church of tenderness and arrogance, of sparkling differences and human failings. There is no unmixing the two. — Joanna Brooks

A man is more than his failings. — Rick Reilly

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice! — Honore De Balzac

At least I'd learn the lesson that friends can make up for the failings of your family. — David Levithan

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. — Hector Berlioz

Don't just see what others tell you to see — Debby Feo

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful. — Pierre Nicole

Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis. — Albert Ellis

One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth. — L. Tom Perry

Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged. — Pope Benedict XVI

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government. — Aung San Suu Kyi

He could accept people with failings - even forgive them - but if he glossed over the problems, then they would never change. — Brandon Sanderson

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness. — Anna Seward

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. — Nikola Telsa

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. — Jean De La Bruyere

She hated him then. Hated the way he stripped her bare. The way he knew her failings before she knew them herself. — Sarah MacLean

Mamma says if we stay so focused on our past failings, we won't be able to move beyond them and learn what we need to know. — Annette Bridges

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. — Cary Grant

It's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul ... — John Geddes

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses. — Darin Strauss

It is one of my failings, to love beautiful things so dearly. — Lisa Kleypas

As the revolution was made by human beings, it was burdened with their failings. — Jung Chang

I have been mastered at last, sweet Cyn, helpless in the face of that most human of failings, I love you. — D.B. Reynolds

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The "hypocrite" is the critic who disguises his own failings by focusing attention on the failings of others. — Michael Shermer

Refusing to believe that change can occur at any moment is one of the worst of human failings. — Leigh Hershkovich

Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel. — Marguerite Yourcenar

The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings. — Spike Jonze

The Bible is chock-a-block with such unnecessary but beautiful antitheses. God, whatever his other failings, is a great rhetorician. — Mark Forsyth

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings. — Gerard Depardieu