I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.
Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.
Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.
Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.
Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.
I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?
I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.
I feel history is more of a story than a lesson. I know this idea of presentism: this idea of constantly evoking the past to justify the present moment. A lot of people will tell you, "history is how we got here. " And learning from the lessons of history. But that's imperfect. If you learn from history you can do things for all the wrong reasons.
I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.
We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.
To treat an imperfect brother (or sister) impatiently is to advertise our own imperfections.
as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!