Pastoral Resources

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

Now I can see I was at fault for not being more considerate, but when we were doing the show I didn't think it was my job to be considerate to other people.

It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.

It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.

The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Focus on remedies, not faults.

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.