Best 302 quotes in «flaws quotes» category

The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work, rather than counting on some stranger in Manhattan to do it for him.

The more I am able to deeply love and accept my flaws and imperfections, the more I am able to do that with my fellows.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.

The one [The Beverly Hillbillies] flaw in this is that you can't hear the people laughing.

The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

There are flaws in romance but love is perfect.

There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.

There is a fundamental flaw in interpretations of sharia that say a woman or man should be punished for sex outside of marriage.

There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.

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.

The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.

The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.

The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.

The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.

Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.

The vast interplanetary and vast interstellar regions will no longer be regarded as waste places in the universe. We shall find them to be already full of this wonderful medium; so full that no human power can remove it from the smallest portion of space or produce the slightest flaw in its infinite continuity.

What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime.

When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

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.

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.

Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.

Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn't affect me and they're respectful with it, I don't care what they do. Because I'm not perfect and I have flaws, so who would I be to be judgmental?

You need to learn to accept your flaws and forgive yourself.

You know, I guess I just don't like to talk a lot about sad things. Now you know my flaw. What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past?

Accepting people's quirks or flaws doesn't just take changing them off your to-do list—it also gives you the time and energy to change the things you can.

A deep connection starts with interest, open-mindedness, & paying attention to every detail including flaws.

Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation.

A disastrous flaw in our design is that the heart always defies the brain.

A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion.

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability.

And yet I wasn't sure what his weakness was. We all do that as we get to know someone. Like a tabloid editor, we search for both greatness and weakness, jotting down notes in our heads for future exploitation. We are never comfortable with those who have no visible flaw.

Before you can begin to change you must accept yourself. Accept your flaws. Accept your strengths. Work with yourself instead of against. Change begins with an internal unification.

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

Flaws are beautiful differences that have been wrongly considered.

FLAWS IS ONE OTHER THING THAT DEFINES US, ITS PART OF OUR IDENTITY, ITS PART OF WHO WE ARE, ITS WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT....NOT JUST OUR STRENGTH!!!

Flaws. We all have them. BUT, they are all about perception. What I consider as a flaw may not be what someone else considers as a flaw. To me, a flaws is an imperfection or a fault in MY eyes. I consider my flaws to be things that I do not like about myself and things that I would like to change.

Focusing on other people's flaws will distract you from seeing your own.

[A]nd there are few things as threatening to us as individuals as a person who perceives our worst flaws, especially when those flaws are all they see.

And there are the very special people in our lives who have the endless capacity to love us for all of our flaws.

Being always right is not always right in the wrong places.

But if I've learned anything, it is that goodness prevails, not in the absence of reasons to despair, but in spite of them. If we wait for clean heroes and clear choices and evidence on our side to act, we will wait forever, and my radio conversations teach me that people who bring light into the world wrench it out of darkness, and contend openly with darkness all of their days. [...] They were flawed human beings, who wrestled with demons in themselves as in the world outside. For me, their goodness is more interesting, more genuinely inspiring because of that reality. The spiritual geniuses of the ages and of the everyday simply don't let despair have the last word, nor do they close their eyes to its pictures or deny the enormity of its facts. They say, "Yes, and …," and they wake up the next day, and the day after that, to live accordingly.

But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though. " "But you don’t get mad. Not like Pop does." "No, that’s true, I don’t get mad. Not at stories. They do disappoint me sometimes." He looked at the shelves. "Sometimes, they stab me in the heart.

Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as an exception to the rule, but such a failing in a man is regarded as interesting, even provocative, rather than disfiguring. Women must submit to a more exacting measure.

Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.

Do not have expectations. We humans are created imperfect, which means that we have flaws

Don't ask me why am I not fine, don't say a word just come and hug me. Even if I don't hug you back at that very moment, don't let me go. Hug me more tightly, let me hear your heart beating for me, let me feel the warmth of you inside your arms when your hand is rubbing my back and your fingers are moving through my hair, burn down all my insecurities with your love.

Don’t think that writing your character as an untainted paragon of virtue will make them likeable—actually the opposite is true. People are attracted to each other’s rough edges. Your readers will relate more with your hero if they show issues that taint their character.