Quotes About Flaws

This is how we understand. We wore your flaws. We wore your fears. We made your mistakes.

To devise situation where the protagonist is force to tell a lie, a useful figure for the writer is the Devil. Like the Devil, the author actively searches for flaws in a protagonist's character and seeks to exploit these flaws...As an author, your job is to find ways of exposing the lies of your protagonist.

I looked from face to face, exaggerating flaws and reminding myself that these boys did not like me. The hope was that I might crush any surviving atom attraction, but as has been the case for my entire life, the more someone dislikes me the more attractive he becomes.

I am a citizen as well as an individual soul and one of the things citizenship teaches us, over the long stretch, is that there is no perfectibility in human affairs.

Faults are soon copied.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

I've always been fascinated by famous people, but I'm more interested in the flaws and quirks that make them human than in their public image.

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.

Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.

When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.

The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else's flaws, so of course you're gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, 'If you loved me, you wouldn't criticise me.' Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.

Despite his flaws, one has to admit that he is a whale-sized catch." "I'll be thrilled when someone harpoons him," Lillian muttered, making the other two laugh.

I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection.

He was a man, an attractive man if one overlooked the obnoxiousness. But women had to overlook men's personality flaws, else nobody would ever wed and/or reproduce and the human race would come to an end. Naturally

But women had to overlook men's personality flaws, else nobody would ever wed and/or reproduce and the human race would come to an end.

She realized the murderous urges suggested that she, in fact, did not have this, but hey, no one was perfect.

Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect myself. Smoking is self-destructive. Drinking is self-destructive. Losing your temper and yelling at people is wrong. Lying is wrong. Cheating is wrong. Stealing is wrong. But people do that stuff all the time. Soon as I figure out how to be a perfect human being, then I'm qualified to go lecture other people about how they live their lives.

It is infatuation that is blind. Love sees the flaws only too clearly, but goes on caring just the same, in spite of all

But any religion would be found lacking if judged solely by its human servants.