Flaws famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach...
-- Aaron Copland -
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
-- Aaron McGruder -
But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.
-- Adam Schiff -
Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.
-- Anais Nin -
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
-- Andrew Solomon -
My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.
-- Andy Rooney -
The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.
-- Anna Godbersen -
Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.
-- Ariana Grande -
O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
There is a fundamental flaw in interpretations of sharia that say a woman or man should be punished for sex outside of marriage
-- Asra Nomani -
I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
-- Barry Hannah -
I wish I didn't have any flaws! I think everybody is flawed.
-- Beau Bridges -
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
-- Ben Whishaw -
Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!
-- Billy Graham -
A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.
-- Brandon Sanderson -
Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
-- Brent Weeks -
Nowadays I embrace it all/Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws.
-- Brother Ali -
It doesn't matter how good the card is if the issuance process is flawed.
-- Bruce Schneier -
The one flaw in this is that you can't hear the people laughing.
-- Buddy Ebsen -
When you love somebody, or something, its amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.
-- Caroline Knapp -
I like the flaws best," Sam said. "They make her real.
-- Carolyn Mackler -
I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.
-- Chris Isaak -
Algorithms dont do a good job of detecting their own flaws.
-- Clay Shirky -
I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.
-- Dan Quisenberry -
There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.
-- David Adams Richards -
It's through our unique flaws that our individuality can be expressed.
-- David Trumble -
Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.
-- Debbi Fields -
I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.
-- Denise Mina -
You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
-- Diane Arbus -
I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.
-- Donald Fagen -
Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.
-- Eminem -
The flaws you see in others are actually a reflection of yourself.
-- Eve Branson -
And now we're apart and you're just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn't make sense.
-- Gaby Dunn -
...I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me
-- Gene Wolfe -
I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.
-- George A. Romero -
Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.
-- Gillian Flynn -
The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.
-- Gillian Flynn -
So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.
-- Gray Davis -
Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.
-- Gray Davis -
The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
-- Harry A. Blackmun -
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve.
-- Irving Howe -
To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
-- J. J. Abrams -
The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.
-- Jack McDevitt -
America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
-- James A. Michener -
Stars don't want to have flaws. Stars like to be likable.
-- Jeff Daniels -
All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.
-- Jennifer McMahon -
The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn't exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else.
-- Jennifer Saunders -
Every team is flawed. There hasn't been a truly complete team in a while.
-- Jim Calhoun -
I'm in favour of politicians having extra-marital relationships. Oh yeah. It makes them more understanding of the flaws that the rest of us have.
-- Joe Klein -
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.
-- Johann Georg Hamann -
The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.
-- John Baldessari -
the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.
-- Jon Krakauer -
To be able to see the flaws in your own work is a gift.
-- Jude Deveraux -
When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.
-- Judith Martin -
Reporters, even flawed reporters, should not be jailed for protecting even flawed sources.
-- Judith Miller -
We're so quick to point out our own flaws in others.
-- Julian Casablancas -
You have many flaws, he announced... “But there was one flaw that made all the other imperfections pale in comparison.†“Was?†she asked. “I don't have this flaw any longer?†“No, you don't.†“Pray tell,†she muttered in exasperation, “what was this terrible flaw?†He grinned. “You used to be English.
-- Julie Garwood -
Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
-- Karen Allen -
A lot of girls think they have flaws that really aren't flaws. I've never met a girl who was just so secure about everything.
-- Kellan Lutz -
What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.
-- Kelly Brook -
It's not a character flaw to become an adult.
-- Kenneth Lonergan -
Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.
-- Lady Gaga -
It's amazing how beauty can mask so many flaws
-- Lucinda Riley -
There are no flaws in the soul of every human being.
-- Ma Jaya -
You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.
-- Marat Safin -
I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.
-- Marcia Gay Harden -
All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.
-- Marguerite Young -
Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.
-- Mark Lawrence -
The same energy used to point out someone's flaws, can be used to work on your own.
-- Mark Sutton -
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
-- Martial -
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
-- Martial -
I like characters with flaws, who have shadow.
-- Matt Bomer -
He always loved her because of, not in sprite of, her flaws.
-- Megan McCafferty -
Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.
-- Melissa de la Cruz -
You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.
-- Michael Moore -
I find the less you focus on your flaws, the better off you are. Be yourself and be glad of who you are.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer -
I'm confident - confident in my skin, and I'm cool with my flaws and all that stuff.
-- Minka Kelly -
Everyone has flaws. It's a matter of finding the ones you can live with.
-- Moon Unit Zappa -
You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.
-- Morley Safer -
You’ll have to be my conscience.†He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. “Mine isn’t going to grow back.
-- Nalini Singh -
I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know
-- Naomi Shihab Nye -
The flaws, the mistakes I make – that's the real me.
-- Nas -
The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.
-- Nelson Rodrigues -
I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.
-- Nicolas Cage -
I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.
-- Nicole Kidman -
I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
-- Olivia Thirlby -
But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.
-- Patrick Rothfuss -
The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.
-- Paul David Tripp -
If you’re going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you’d better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.
-- Paul Orfalea -
Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.
-- Richard Marcinko
