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What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate? -- Morley Safer
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up. -- P. D. James
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
No one knows the cost of a defective product - don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer. -- W. Edwards Deming
Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that can be studied in them are the physical qualities and functions. -- Elie Metchnikoff
My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms. -- Benjamin Whorf
The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals. -- Gary Bauer
The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve. -- Magdi Yacoub
I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion, so completely insignificant that it could not become the source of great events. -- Giordano Bruno
Most credit cards provide some sort of protection against a defective purchase, and with gold or platinum cards, you'll often get double the manufacturer's warranty. You're also not immediately out your own money if something goes wrong. -- Jean Chatzky
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. -- Laozi
Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand? -- Emma Willard
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. -- Thomas Aquinas
In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a defective motor. I said, 'Send it back. We'll send you a new one.' She said, 'No - I'm not sending you Rosie.' -- Colin Angle
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective. -- James Wolcott
If you took some famous religious leader, for example, and said it would be nice to clone them indefinitely so you have a dynasty of leaders, my own guess would be that each time the cloning takes place, they would become more and more defective, presumably mentally defective and subsequently worse. -- John Gurdon
The secret of survival is a defective imagination. -- John Banville
If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective. -- Ted Nugent
George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I forgot the defective can be more than the whole -- Thomas Hardy
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. -- Richard E. Pattis
A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances. -- Amit Kalantri
My heart was defective. It was defecting a little more each day. -- Christopher Barzak
What about your school? It's defective, it's a pack of useless lies. -- Meat Loaf
Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective. -- Hermann Minkowski
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible. -- Thomas Nagel
I will stop at nothing to reach my objective, but only because my brakes are defective. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances. -- Ernst Mach
Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective -- Bertrand Russell
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless. -- Evelyn Waugh
Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion. -- Walter Lippmann
A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror. -- Arthur Brisbane
In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed. -- Herbert M. Shelton
Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all. -- Peter Singer
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective. -- William Penn
A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer. -- W. Edwards Deming
Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless. -- Bob Dylan
From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking. -- Tony Attwood
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective. -- Margaret Sanger
Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective. -- George Bernard Shaw
The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective -- James Madison
On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective. -- Margaret Sanger
I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me. -- Phillip Lopate
We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember. -- Samuel Johnson
Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective. -- Emanuel Lasker
I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge -- Douglas Preston
Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody. -- Florence King
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions. -- Clarence Darrow
I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God. -- William Carey
For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological. -- Charles Bernheimer
The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential. -- Louis O. Kelso
Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective. -- Noah Webster
Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective. -- Christopher Hitchens
[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it. -- Joanna Russ
I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on. -- Joe Frank
The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom. -- James Martineau
The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the most humane act of mankind. -- Adolf Hitler
We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America. -- Norman Cousins
These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men... -- Sun Tzu
Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly. -- Richard Steele
You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human. -- David Mitchell
There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society. -- Joseph Addison
Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full exercise of the largest constitutional authorities. -- Alexander Hamilton
That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell. -- J. C. Ryle
Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism. -- George Trumbull Ladd
A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that. -- Toni Morrison
It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms. -- Benjamin Whorf

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