When you play a big server, you are under enormous pressure on your own serve because you cannot afford to be broken. That causes a lot of players to panic: you see double faults or tentative serves. It’s all in the mind, but it still happens.
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
I’m a big enough lad now to know that I should just get over it and do what I have to do, by getting out on the training pitch and correcting the faults.
My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
It is imperative that mothers understand their child’s behavior and not blindly support the wrongdoings or faults in their sons.
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Unfortunately, people like to remember me only for my faults.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
I could find faults with all my albums because that’s just a part of being an artist – it’s hard being a human being, isn’t it?
The fact that populism is flourishing internationally, far from the Electoral College and Fox News, suggests that Trump’s specific faults might actually be propping up American liberalism.
It’s worth pointing out that no one faults a male protagonist for falling in love. What is it about a boy needing a girl that seems to round out his character, while a girl needing a boy can be dismissed as pathetic?
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
I’ve always, for whatever my faults have been, felt like I’ve never done anything halfway.
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely based in Los Angeles, but whenever someone asks me where home is, I automatically say ‘London.’
It’s true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me – but only because my faults are so enormous.
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
People shouldn’t be living in certain places – on earthquake faults or on flood plains. But they do, and there are consequences.
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other’s faults.
When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong.
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
I don’t wish anybody ill, I really don’t. I’ve got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or… it’s a waste of time.
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.
We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Specifically for ‘Faults,’ the three films I mention most as inspiration are ‘Dogtooth,’ ‘Fargo’ and ‘Punch-Drunk Love.’
I hate watching my own work… I find a lot of faults.
If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are – you have to bear your faults, your frailties.
All models have faults – that doesn’t mean you can’t use them as tools for making decisions.
If you can’t admit your faults how can you ever grow?
It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little ‘personal characteristics.’
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
I’m human, I feel, I understand. That’s the highest level of love, is understanding – when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I’ll consider your feelings, too.
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
I’m a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I’ve been through my dark times in my life to where I wasn’t walking the walk and talking the talk, or I may have been talking the talk, but I wasn’t walking the walk.
Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks – who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
You know, I analyze my faults and my weaknesses very carefully. I’m very hypercritical of myself.
DePaul’s plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and destroyed my career because of my virtues. Which, although few in number, they still found threatening.
Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
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