Titon Rahmawan quote: “In love people often overlook flaws, dismiss weaknesses, and even forget mistakes. But when that feeling gradually dimi…”

“Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.”

Christopher Paolini book Brisingr

Source: Brisingr

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

pg 71
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body

“The mistakes of history might be gradually forgotten, but historical truth cannot be forgotten, since forgetting history could lead to the recurrence of the same mistakes.”

Ma Ying-jeou (1950) Taiwanese politician, president of the Republic of China

Ma Ying-jeou (2015) cited in: " President presents ROC flag to son of war heroine http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aedu/201507030021.aspx" in Focus Taiwan, 3 July 2015.
Statement made in launching the two exhibitions on Chinese people's lives during Second Sino-Japanese War, 3 July 2015.
Political issues

“The best thing in life is finding someone who knows all your flaws, mistakes and weaknesses, but still thinks you’re completely amazing.”

Ralph Smart

“My philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be.”

Gwen Cooper (1971) American novelist

Source: Homer's Odyssey

“Sometimes "pi = 3.14" is (a) infinitely faster than the "correct" answer and (b) the difference between the "correct" and the "wrong" answer is meaningless. And this is why I get upset when somebody dismisses performance issues based on "correctness". The thing is, some specious value of "correctness" is often irrelevant because it doesn't matter. While performance almost always matters. And I absolutely detest the fact that people so often dismiss performance concerns so readily.”

Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker

Git mailing list, Fri, 8 Aug 2008
2000s, 2008

“I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning even its weakness into strength, and so, from the depths of transgression and the very gates of hell, raises men to God.”

Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 398.

“People often forget that in 1940 there was no guarantee that we were going to win.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

This quote is actually from Churchill's daughter, Lady Soames. See "The Beacon of the Western Way of Life" http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=135
Misattributed

“When someone forgets himself, this by no means makes him altruistic; when a thinking person forgets himself, he immediately also forgets his fellowman, he loses himself and his humanity by becoming engrossed in his subject. Thus he is in a sense more contemplative than a feeling person.”

M. C. Escher (1898–1972) Dutch graphic artist

1950's, On Being a Graphic Artist', 1953

“In love people often overlook flaws, dismiss weaknesses, and even forget mistakes. But when that feeling gradually diminishes and then leaves, they turn into a different person than they were before.”

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