The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.
The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.
I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.
Everyone on the Commission assumes that 911 resulted from a lack of government action. No one in Washington has raised the question of whether our shortcomings, brought to light by 911, could have been a result of too much government.
I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.
A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.
One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.
One who changes a body from the error of the way not only brings peace and harmony but saves a soul and covers a multitude of shortcomings.
At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
Everybody, male or female, needs to possess qualities that they expect others to uphold. Being aware of yourself and your actions allows you to assess your shortcomings in an honest way.
If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor's shortcomings.
We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.
Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.
I believe we need heroes. . . we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.
Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.
It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.
From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.
With our own shortcomings, we are in no position to judge anyone else. The best way to forget the faults of others is to remember our own.