Flaws Quotes - Page 14

• 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

  Passion, Wish, Social

  Irving Howe (1994). “A Critic's Notebook”, Harcourt

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• The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

  Ben Whishaw

  Justice, Criminals, Humans

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

  Richard Marcinko

  Character, Counter Attack, Character Flaws

  Richard Marcinko (2005). “Vengeance”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should be equal. Hence, one-man-one-vote. But is equality realistic? If it is not, to insist on equality must lead to regression.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Men, Democracy, Regression

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.48, Editions Didier Millet

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• If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their flaws are something that they have to act in spite of. The challenge is not to defy your fate, but to endure it. That is heroic.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Hero, Fate, Challenges

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• Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.

  Keith O'Brien

  Majority, Belief, Honest

  "Paedophile priests have left Catholics confused and demoralised, cardinal to say" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2010.

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• I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Found, Pitcher, Delivery

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• 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

  Love Yourself, Self Love, Enjoy Life

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• Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

  Tony Wilson

  Pride, Gun, Drug

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• There is a string that connects us that is not visible to the eye. Maybe every person has more than one soul they are connected to, and all over the world there are those invisible strings... Maybe the chances that you'll find each and every one of your soul mates is slim. But sometimes you're lucky enough to stumble across one. And you feel a tug. And it's not so much a choice to love them though their flaws and through your differences, but rather you love them without even trying. You love their flaws.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Love, Eye, Differences

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• A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law.

  Big L

  War, Law, Wit

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• No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.

  Richard Simmons

  Precious Stones, Perfect, Focus

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

  T. D. Jakes

  Teaching, Way, Lovable

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• Nothing stops the forward march of any creative endeavor like the need to do it absolutely perfectly. And who is to judge what is 'perfect' anyway? What I have judged full of flaws so many others have called terrific. Maybe the definition of Perfection is something that actually gets done.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Perfect, Judging, Creative

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 04, 2015

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• Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack in everyday life. Then you can take comfort in knowing they'll do it for you, as well. Accepting each other, flaws and all, is what love is all about.

  Gaelen Foley

  Cutting, Love Is, Knowing

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• In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

  John Chancellor

  Character, People, Tragedy

  John Chancellor (1995). “The New News Business: A Guide to Writing and Reporting”, Harper Perennial

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• There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

  Mike Nichols

  Dream, Character, Serious

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• What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Strong, Character, Weakness

  "A teen just trying to figure it out". TEDxTeen Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• I just want you that's it. All your flaws, mistakes, smiles, giggles, jokes, sarcasm. Everything. I just want you

  Sara Quin

  Love, Mistake, Sarcasm

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• Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.

  Kanye West

  Shining, Littles, Sometimes

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• I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a table, it would resemble a scrap of lace. I am a lover of history . . . [but] history has one flaw. It is a subjective art, no less so than poetry or music. . . . The historian writes a truth. The memoirist writes a truth. The novelist writes a truth. And so on. My mother, we both know, wrote a truth in The 19th Wife– a truth that corresponded to her memory and desires. It is not the truth, certainly not. But a truth, yes . . . Her book is a fact. It remains so, even if it is snowflaked with holes.

  David Ebershoff

  Mother, Art, Memories

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• Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.

  Charlie Trotter

  Fighting, Interesting, Excellence

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• Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

  Debbi Fields

  Good Enough, Excellent, Standards

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• If something seems possible, that's probably because someone is already doing it. When something seems that it can't possibly work, nobody tries it. Real innovation happens when someone tries anyway, overlooking an obvious flaw, and finds a way to make an idea work.

  Joel Spolsky

  Real, Ideas, Innovation

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• He's a complete fighter. He has some flaws, of course, but he has a good stand up game, good takedowns and a good ground game. He's a complete fighter, and that makes him dangerous. He hits hard, but I believe I can stop him. I believe I can finish this fight earlier. I'm not underestimating him, but I've learned a lot in my past fights. I have learned a lot in my fight against (Chris) Weidman, so it's likely that I will finish this fight before the fifth round. Whatever it takes. I'm training hard on my grappling skills and my striking, so I want to finish him with a knockout or a submission.

  Lyoto Machida

  Believe, Fighting, Past

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