Quotes About Flaw

We have a definition in our heads of what an advantage is—and the definition isn't right. And what happens as a result? It means that we make mistakes.

In reality, the very thing that gave the giant his size was also the source of his greatest weakness.

Make your flaw your strength.

Depression is the flaw in love. If you were married to someone and thought, Well, if my wife dies, I'll find another one, it wouldn't be love as we know it. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss, and that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

Living in a dream of the future is considered a character flaw. Living in the past, bathed in nostalgia, is also considered a character flaw. Living in the present moment is hailed as spiritually admirable, but truly ignoring the lessons of history or failing to plan for tomorrow are considered character flaws ... I wanted to know how to inhabit time in a way that wasn't a character flaw.

To a certain extent, it is my weak point and flaw that I cannot abide and avoid the idiocy of the idiots, the lies of the liars, and the ignorance of the ignorant.

the fear that now your "fatal flaw" will reveal itself fully as you fail to make the

I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny.

She's generous to a fault - if it's her own.

But how true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Or, if not wholly true, how nearly so. Therefore, I have added to most of my pleasures the little flavour of bitterness, the flaw in their perfection, the canker in the damask, the worm at the root, the fear of loss, or of satiety, the fearful risks involved in their very existence, which tang their sweetness, and mind us of their mortality and of our own, and that nothing in this world is perfect.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. —KURT VONNEGUT JR.

His one great flaw was making the terrible and exhilarating mistake of falling in love with Scarlett O'Hara.

The horror was, Cleopatra meant something to these modern people of the twentieth century which was altogether wrong. She had become a symbol of licentiousness, when in fact she had possessed a multitude of amazing talents. They had punished her for her one flaw by forgetting everything else…Remembered, but not for what she was. A painted whore lying on a silken couch. - Ramses

One last note on this illness. I said that it was terrible, yet that in some ways very little seemed to be wrong. Imagine a ship leaving West Africa for the New World. If the compass was set only one degree out – just one tiny degree out of three hundred and sixty – it could end up not in New York but in Mexico. That is what I mean by a tiny flaw and a catastrophic result.

I'm not usually stunned speechless. Call it a character flaw.

Die Lucia is volmaakt!" "Dat zou je denken," Giacomo klinkt plotseling bedrukt. "Ze heeft alleen één ernstige tekortkoming." "Welke dan?" "Zij is te jong." Hij meende het, maar zijn broer moest lachen: "Wat een schitterend gebrek!

Ships, certainly, are liable to casualties, which sometimes make terribly evident some flaw in their construction that would never have been discoverable in smooth water; and many a "good fellow," through a disastrous combination of circumstances, has undergone a like betrayal.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

And wasn't it amazing that an imperfection could make a perfect thing even more perfect?

In the case of my younger brother it was an immortality without flaw, without commentary, smooth, pure, unique. My younger brother had nothing to cry in the wilderness, he had nothing to say, here or anywhere, nothing. He was uneducated, he never managed to learn anything. He couldn't speak, could scarcely read, scarcely write, sometimes you'd think he couldn't even suffer. He was someone who didn't understand and was afraid.

Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.

If different systems don't merge in a comprehensible way, that's a flaw in our comprehension and not a flaw in one system or the other.

Beneath the palm trees Lora waited, watching the sea. Clyde's boat was already visible as a tiny notch on the far horizon—the only flaw in the perfect mating of sea and sky.