Quotes About Flaws

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.

It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them.

I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

Ihminen vailla puutteita on vuori vailla rotkoja.

Un homme sans défauts est une montagne sans crevasses. Il ne m'intéresse pas.

The study of human institutions is always a search for the most tolerable imperfections.

the goal was not simply to make the thought-control target admit his errors and flaws but to so thoroughly destroy his sense of autonomous individuality that he feels gratitude and love for the leader who restored him to the correct path—Chairman Mao.

Our leaders keep saying phrases like, "Let the market decide." or "The market will get to the efficient outcome." Really? The market is a very flawed institution that does not deserve the nearly religious kind of endorsement of it that our leaders are eager to provide over and over again.

Nobody's perfect, she liked to say. But, man, we all fall short so beautifully.

And Nick was gone, reeled out on a leash long enough to reach the Chicago Loop, with the freedom to test all the flaws inherent in his own desire.

It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.

It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.

The best she was able to do was to reflect that people invariably exhibited the very worst side of their flawed natures when invited to put their thoughts into writing, especially when the invitation was sanctioned hit-and-run posing as democracy in action.

There were just enough flaws to make her perfect.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation, she said. Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.