Quotes About Flawed

Yes, we are flawed. Yes, we are cruel and generous and brutal and gentle and cynical and idealistic. But most of all, we must not be enemies. We must be Americans - Americans together - and we will be so again, when we are touched by the better angels of our nature.

I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.

Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.

Creativity has to start somewhere, and we are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback, and the iterative process - reworking, reworking, and reworking again until a flawed story finds its through line or a hollow character finds its soul.

I'm an actor, and I want to play flawed characters, and I'm a writer that wants to write flawed characters, trying to let something out and hoping people relate through that or have fun experiencing the story.

However flawed democracy is, it is still the only answer.

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

Self-awareness: there is the black worm in the apple. Our curse is to know there's something terribly wrong with us.

Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek out the margins of history and the forgotten tales that illuminate the whole, complex truth of our flawed yet wondrous nature as a species.

My characters in my movies are all flawed. You'll probably never see Tom Hanks in a Doug Liman film. He plays, you know, very earnest and unflawed.

I'm pretty self-aware, and I am an embarrassingly flawed human being in a ton of ways.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

She was waltzing in a man's arms and smiling at him and enjoying every moment and dreaming of him as he had once been—and of herself as she had once been. She was being seduced and she was allowing it to happen just as if she had no will of her own, no character or principles of her own. Just as if she were that same naive, heedless girl and he was that same flawed golden boy.

Flawed as it is, Science remains the most solid god ive got. Science has the answer to ever question that can be asked.

Whenever you see the word equilibrium in a textbook, blot it out.' It is wrong because it assumes perfect competition, perfect knowledge and perfect rationality, none of which do or can exist.

the notion of grace as a recognition that we are fundamentally flawed and weak and confused. We don't deserve grace, but we get it sometimes.

It was the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, crafted by flawed but brilliant thinkers who reasoned their way to a system at once sturdy and capable of change. An America that could explain me.

But my arts are also pure, as a circle is pure, and in a flawed world purity cannot endure.

the ratification process may have been flawed, yet he certified the amendment passed anyway, that was fraud. Which meant that every single cent collected through a wrongfully adopted 16th Amendment was subject to suit and restitution. Those

you don't have to live in community long to realize that lives which are blessed and instructive are still flawed. The grace of the gospel isn't only that the Word was made flesh in Jesus, but also that the eternal Word is made present in weak and wonderful people.

Only the most cynical, hopeless philosophy insists that reality could be improved through falsification. Such a philosophy judges Being and becoming alike, and deems them flawed. It denounces truth as insufficient and the honest man as deluded. It is a philosophy that both brings about and then justifies the endemic corruption of the world.

Pasiunea e o stare patologic? ce presupune imperfec?iunea unui suflet.

Growing inequality, combined with a flawed system of campaign finance, risks turning America's legal system into a travesty of justice. Some may still call it the "rule of law," but in today's America the proud claim of "justice for all" is being replaced by the more modest claim of "justice for those who can afford it.

Any government that allow schoolchildren to be murdered even once has to be thought of as flawed, but a government that repeatedly lets its children, and other innocents, be killed has to be considered a failure. As the head of such a government, responsibility for that failure begins, but doesn't end, with me.