Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

In my little imperfect way, what I'm trying to do is understand the world. As a filmmaker, you realize as you get older that each film is part of a dialogue you're having with yourself. That started when I was working in documentaries. And in a way, I've never deviated from it.

- Paul Greengrass

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

- Maxwell Maltz

So many people are like, 'I'm perfect.' I'm so imperfect; that's why I'm able to let everything out and let people see everything. 'Cause I'm just a mess like every other person that's a mess out there.

- Mary J. Blige

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

- Marc Jacobs

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

- Mahatma Gandhi

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.

- Kathie Lee Gifford

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

- Joyce Meyer

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

- Henry Ward Beecher

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

- Helen Hunt

There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.

- Anne Bronte

We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?

- Emilio Estevez

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

- Edward Albee

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

- David S. Goyer

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

- Christine Keeler

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

- Chuck Hagel

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

- Conor Oberst

Imperfect substitutability of assets implies that changes in the supplies of various assets available to private investors may affect the prices and yields of those assets.

- Ben Bernanke

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

- Alden Nowlan

I'd like to do radio just like pictures - leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor.

- Al Jolson