Quotes About Flawed

It's a very complicated relationship that I have with America. I love it so much. And I also see the places where it's flawed.

I never came across a character who was brilliant, funny, flawed and just happened to have a disability. That's why I've written 'The Amazing Edie Eckhart.'

I like fractured characters with human follies.

The idea that commodities, as an asset class, is finished is just fundamentally flawed.

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me.

It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

All-American and proud of it. Too rich and soft and flawed to make any spiritual mark on anyone other than my own dog and children . . . on a good day.

Refuting the false promises requires philosophic understanding of economic interventionism, central banking, and the deeply flawed foreign policy of meddling in the affairs of other nations.

Maybe we have to sin, to know ourselves human, faulty and flawed, before there is any possibility of greatness. - Nik

The truly great books are flawed: The Brothers Karamazov is unwieldy in structure; a present-day editor would probably want to cut the Grand Inquisitor scene because it isn't necessary to the plot. For me The Brothers Karamazov is one of the greatest novels ever written, and this is perhaps because of, rather than in spite of, its human faults.

The transparency problem ends up in the same place as the default-to-truth problem. Our strategies for dealing with strangers are deeply flawed, but they are also socially necessary.

that there is something brilliant about them. It is that there is something wrong with us.

Flawed genius is better than flawless talent.

It was our fate and our natures, flawed and wounded, that brought us together - Violet Minturn

The gurus I have met personally, as well as those whose careers and teachings I have studied at a distance, range from crooks who could be quickly dismissed to teachers who were brilliant but flawed, to those who, while still human, seemed to possess so much compassion and clarity of mind that they were nearly flawless examples of the benefits of spiritual practice.

Most criminals were dumb, and he took the view that the whole science of criminology was essentially flawed, since much of its theory was based on the study of criminals who had been caught, and were therefore either stupid or unlucky, as opposed to the study of those who had not been caught, and were therefore smart and had a little luck on their side, but just a little. Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

In divine union, work and play should rise to meet together as one. This is your calling. "To me, work that does not rise to the level of play is flawed work and play that is simply an escape from the expenditure of effort is flawed play," says Capon. "Play is the sovereign category, not work. If we have any final vocation, any ultimate calling, it is into that play.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.

But of course he was also human, which is to say he was limited, and among his limitations was a blindness of a kind that is perhaps not all that unusual among extraordinary men of a certain type. Often right about important things, he was inclined to think himself always right about everything.