I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

All the perplexities confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation not from want of honor or virtue so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin credit and circulation.

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them they will forgive us everything even our gigantic intellects.

The so-called modern education with all its defects however does others so much more good than it does the Negro because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Time which alone makes the reputation of men ends by making their defects respectable.