Shortcomings Quotes (page 2)

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• thinking
• feeling
• understanding

You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. I can't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat whenyou are in the depths of despair?"I've never been in the depths of despair, so I can't say," responded Marilla. Weren't you? Well, did you ever try to IMAGINE you were inthe depths of despair?"No, I didn't."Then I don't think you can understand what it's like. It's very uncomfortable a feeling indeed. L. M. Montgomery

• brave
• hand
• appearance

When the heavens are obscured to us, and nothing noble or heroic appears, but we are oppressed by imperfection and shortcoming on all hands, we are apt to suck our thumbs and decry our fates. As if nothing were to be done in cloudy weather, or, if heaven were not accessible by the upper road, men would not find out a lower... There are two ways to victory, - to strive bravely, or to yield. How much pain the last will save we have not yet learned. Henry David Thoreau

• view
• viewing
• constitutions

Although he liked nearly everything else about himself, Keith hated his redeeming features. In his view they constituted his only major shortcoming -his one tragic flaw. Martin Amis

• lets
• otherness
• me

Let me see. What are my other shortcomings? Arthur Conan Doyle

• shadow
• should
• half

My shadow is only half of what it should be."Everyone has their shortcomings. Haruki Murakami

• manly
• avoiding
• men

Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don'tin your endurance of fatigue and privation. always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide. Erwin Rommel

• romantic
• rejection
• courage

We are captivated by the feminine shadow of the self we might have been; in my case by that counterpart of the romantic writer who should have had the courage to reject society and to accept poverty for the sake of the development of his personality. Now when I see such beings I hope that I can somehow be freed from my shortcomings by union with them. Hence the recurrent longing to forsake external reality for a dream and to plunge into a ritual flight...I am attracted by those who... Cyril Connolly

• supremely
• manifestation
• his

the supreme manifestation of all his self-perceived shortcomings Chuck Palahniuk

• achievement
• manly
• little

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings. George Eliot

• love
• blind
• blindness

Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see. Louisa May Alcott

• great
• greatness
• manly

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• responsibility
• new
• time

Reason is up to these demands because it is an open-ended combinatorial system, an engine for generating an unlimited number of new ideas. Once it is programmed with a basic self-interest and an ability to communicate with others, its own logic will impel it, in the fullness of time, to respect the interests of ever-increasing numbers of others. It is reason too that can always take note of the shortcomings of previous exercises of reasoning, and update and improve itself in response. And if... Steven Pinker

• friend
• world
• fear

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world. Keith Miller

• people
• those
• our

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own. Franz Grillparzer

• imagination
• look
• reality

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings. Richard Grant