These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.
I am surprised at three things: 1. [A] man runs from death while death is inevitable. 2. One sees minor faults in others, yet overlooks his own major faults. 3. When there is any defect to one's cattle he tries to cure it, but does not cure his own defects.
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.
Defect in one's limb ruins a man.
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it.
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
I believe that they were brave people. One should be of courageous character to do what they had done, not only this, one should be a person of strong character and bravery - not ordinary people. That what I would call them. It's not like some petty official or something that decided to defect to the other side. For them it was a very serious moment.
A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.