Quotes About Flaws

Nothing is so defective as those laws which correct defects.

La nature a des perfections pour montrer qu'elle est l'image de Dieu, et des défauts pour montrer qu'elle n'en est que l'image.

Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see each other in life. [As quoted in Elia Kazan's autobiography, A Life (1988)]

Everything's perfect." I want to kick myself for using that word, because nothing's ever perfect.

We all have foibles, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And the beholder oftentimes gets it wrong.

You have many flaws, he announced... "But there was one flaw that made all the other imperfections pale in comparison." "Was?" she asked. "I don't have this flaw any longer?" "No, you don't." "Pray tell," she muttered in exasperation, "what was this terrible flaw?" He grinned. "You used to be English.

Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken. So pity the first people to reach puberty after a zombie apocalypse, who would have some truly heavy lifting in this department...You become whatever they fear the most. Now THAT'S evolution

The people turn out to be—well, people; a collective noun for all those individual men and women, none of them perfect, some of them downright vicious, most of them monumentally stupid. As stupid as the emperor, the great hereditary lords, the priestly hierarchs, the General Staff and the Lords of the Admiralty, the merchant princes and the organised crime barons.

I guess it depends on whether you want perfect. I hear some girls prefer their boyfriends a little more flawed and troubled.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.

America has become a monster where the flaws, sickness, and inhumanity of Europe have reached frightening proportions.

There is no perfect marriage, for there are no perfect men

even our mistakes are part of the perfection of the universe.

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior. Some men were blind, others had poor tempers. Still others heard voices. It was all the same, in the end. A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It was important to have men who would question you and see flaws in your plans, so long as you could control them. It was all about control.

Some men were blind, others had poor tempers. Still others heard voices. It was all the same, in the end. A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

Our laws will claim innocent men—for all judges are flawed, as is our knowledge. Eventually, you will execute someone who does not deserve it. This is the burden society must carry in exchange for order.

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

Her beauty belonged to all the world but her flaws belonged to him alone.