Quotes About Flaw

Zedillo's lack of political savvy is a personal flaw. But his insulated and elitist governing style reflect the age-old vices of the political system itself.

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

those ornate metal deals. The initials JP were inscribed on the back. I gave Billy a look that informed him I knew I was handling stolen goods. I gave him a follow-up look indicating that I wouldn't rat him out. I'm not a rat, which some people might consider an asset, but I'm fairly certain it is my fatal flaw.

I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.

Despite you being perfect in whatever you do, someday, that flaw will override you and your secured and sheltered self to reveal the outmost.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.

You don't struggle with these questions?""No. But I've always thought my opinion was the right one. It's a small flaw I have.""An American flaw.

How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?

Sentii subito che nell'ordine perfetto dell'universo s'era aperta una breccia, uno squarcio irreparabile.

In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.

I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people.

Up from the bronze, I sawWater without a flawRush to its rest in air,Reach to its rest, and fall.

He respected Gamache more than any other human being, but saw his flaw, perhaps a fatal flaw, as a desire to help people, instead of just firing them.

My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.

A likable character isn't one who does nothing wrong.

It seems as if those of high ability cannot resist some extra, dangerous stroke of cleverness, which results in a fatal flaw and begins a slow decline to evil.

This was your fatal flaw–you always had a backup plan. You were never willing to risk everything.

If the system lets you make the error, it is badly designed.

If the system lets you make the error, it is badly designed. And if the system induces you to make the error, then it is really badly designed.

Does such a thing as the fatal flaw, that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

Your one flaw is that you haven't seen who you really are," Jason said, looking embarrassed. "You think that's my one flaw? Oh, are you in for some difficult surprises

Sarel. It is not humility to assume every responsibility is yours to bear. It is not wise. And it is not just, nor kind. You must let go of your need to feel that everything that befalls you is yours to mend, for at the root of that assumption is a great flaw: the belief that you can control everything. Continue to nourish that flaw and it will grow into the fault that will shatter you as surely as the sword poorly made.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.