Quotes About Flaw

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

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

We only see female protagonists who are likeable, with one cute flaw, such as adorable clumsiness. I'm fed up with it.

I'm sure that all this, I mean other people's attitudes towards me, lies principally in some obscure intrinsic flaw in my own temperament. Perhaps I communicate a coldness that unwittingly obliges others to reflect back my own lack of feeling.

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.

Finally, the fundamental flaw, which will ultimately destroy this prohibition as it did the last one, is that criminal sanctions cannot, and should not attempt to, prohibit personal conduct which does no harm to others.

I'm remembering there's a word in Russian, izgoy, that describes someone with a flaw that makes that person singularly unfit to perform his or her professional role. A blocked writer, I lascivious priest, a drunken chauffeur. As a screwed-up therapist,someone like me should not be working at all. Not yet. It is far too soon. And you can tell that. Bethany, with her Competence Scale, already has. But here I am. An izgoy.

One tooth missing. And only half roughed. on one side only. I'd not call her pretty.

Somewhere in the existing software there was a bug, a potentially lethal flaw. Nothing less than the unselfing of the self would do. If he could cleanse the whole machine, then maybe the bug, too, would end up in the trash. After that, he could perhaps begin to construct a new man.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

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.

Our intelligence may seem to be the flaw in the machine, but strictly speaking the flaw is our inability to use it properly.

Belief is merely a thought or idea that is held to be true. No thought or idea is true. This is the flaw. In fact, in direct experience, no thought or idea can be found.

I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.

Thus the greatest and fatal flaw was the failure to draw on its intellectual capital

Thus the greatest and fatal flaw was the failure to draw on its intellectual capital. - Gordon Bell

We have to find a happy medium in our use of technology. We want things to be efficient, but we have to compartmentalise, too, so that if there is one flaw discovered, the whole thing doesn't topple.

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

I'm calling for a cultural change in how we think about addiction. For far too long people have thought about addiction as a character flaw or a moral failing.

One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.

He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

Paul heard his mother's grief and felt the emptiness within himself. I have no grief , he thought. Why? Why? He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.