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Letter "D" » defect
«Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.»
Author: John Henry Newman
(Cardinal)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
corruption, defect, excess, perversion, perversions, substance
«It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality»
«As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
defect, defective, defectives, likeness, masculine, misbegotten, production, regards, tends, tends to
«He has not one single redeeming defect»
«If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
| Keywords:
approach, challenge, defect, failure, immediately, modifies, modify, modifying, overwhelm, overwhelmed, overwhelms, personality, problem, rather
«If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon»
«Experience has proved that the real danger to America and to liberty lies in the defect of energy and stability in the present establishment of the United States»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Experience
| Keywords:
defect, establishment
«By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
by nature, defect
«It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.»
«Find out the cause of this effect,Or rather say, the cause of this defect,For this effect defective comes by cause.»
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