Flawed Quotes - Page 3

• I'm glad to be a role model, but beyond that I'm a flawed human being, someone who continues to deal with my body image and what my purpose is on the planet.

  Sara Ramirez

  Role Models, Body, Roles

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• My current fear is that the message being sent by the level of vitriol surrounding Gillard's flawed leadership (but tell me whose wasn't flawed) is being heard by Australian women and girls loud and clear. And the message is: 'Don't aspire to high office,sweetheart, because we'll flay you alive.'

  Jane Caro

  Leadership, Girl, Office

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• People might gain insight the longer they live, but things never get easy. There will always be challenges and miscommunications and the temptation to eat greasy, bowel clogging fried food, and take others for granted. The secret is to keep moving and try to see people yo love for what they are: flawed, beautiful and as confused as you.

  Rob Payne

  Beautiful, Confused, Moving

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

  James Russell Lowell

  Death, Believe, Glasses

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• Nobody's perfect. I'm perfectly flawed.

  Amy Lee

  Perfect, Nobody's Perfect

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• There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  People, Religion, Good Man

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• Every church is flawed. Still, you'd better learn to love it since it's the only group Jesus said he's taking to Heaven.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Heaven, Church

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 26, 2011

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• C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Quirky, Computer, Programming

  "Inventing Unix". Interview with Samuel K. Moore, Steven Cherry, spectrum.ieee.org. May 27, 2011.

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• There's no operation where you can have your anger cut out. But if you work on yourself, as you get better, you'll be more capable of seeing others as flawed human beings. That makes it easier to forgive.

  Robin Quivers

  Forgiveness, Cutting, Forgiving

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• I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices. Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

  Emily Giffin

  Real, Writing, Character

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• Everybody sees me as a solitary entity but I long to be important to somebody It's a love of fairy tales that drives this guilty wish To walk serenely in front of family to collect my kiss and though this notion is as flawed as any I have learned I'd like to think that like the others, it's something I deserve

  Happy Rhodes

  Kissing, Thinking, Long

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• To have weakness is not to be flawed--it's to be complete.

  Deepak Chopra

  Weakness

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• Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers’ arguments were deeply flawed.

  William Wilberforce

  Belief, Argument, Christianity

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• In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards, nasty, twisted, deeply flawed human beings with serious psychological problems. Even them. When I get inside their skin and look out through their eyes, I have to feel a certain - if not sympathy, certainly empathy for them. I have to try to perceive the world as they do, and that creates a certain amount of affection.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Eye, Order

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• To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.

  Mary Jo Bang

  Grief, Fate, Tragic

  Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suicide, Aberration, Normal

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

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• Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

  Lawrence Wright

  Self, Journalism, Profession

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• Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love!

  Christos Gage

  Art, Character, Fans

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• Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.

  Trevanian

  Thinking, Democracy, Way

  Trevanian (2011). “Shibumi”, p.198, Hachette UK

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• You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And still, you are beautiful beyond measure. For the core of what you are is fashioned out of love, that potent blend of openness, warmth, and clear, transparent presence.

  John Welwood

  Love, Beautiful, Way

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• The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Trying, World, May

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• Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be flawed, but the way they may develop is endlessly fascinating.

  Michael Broadbent

  Wine, People, Perfect

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• Travel is the discovery of truth; an affirmation of the promise that human kind is far more beautiful than it is flawed. With each trip comes a new optimism that where there is despair and hardship, there are ideas and people just waiting to be energized, to be empowered, to make a difference for good.

  Dan Thompson

  Beautiful, Discovery, Ideas

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• Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Grief, Opportunity, Perception

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans and Douglas Abrams, p.xv, 2006.

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• Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so is the flawed, honest humanity of his characters. Here is real loss and somehow, real catharsis.

  Peter Orner

  Pain, Real, Grief

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