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Quotes About Flawed

Noir works, whether films, novels, or short stories, are existential, pessimistic tales about people, including(or especially) protagonists, who are seriously flawed and morally questionable.
~ James Ellroy
Yeltsin was admirable but flawed, noble but tainted, but in his own negligent grandeur, he undermined his own real achievements - and accelerated their ruin.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
I think that the general public understands that its own doctors are human, fallible, and flawed.
~ Jed Mercurio
There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
No one's an angel - especially if he's a man
~ Ken Follett, Edge of Eternity
The New Labour doctrine that skills training was the responsibility of employers was flawed. The idea that employers should take on a bigger role ignores the reality that employers have no incentive to train staff to leave. We can hardly expect Tesco to train checkout staff to become dental nurses.
~ David Lammy
Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting.
~ Satyajit Ray
People are afraid to show women with demons. But I think it's important for women to see flawed female characters. We're held to a perfect standard, but every woman is flawed.
~ Riley Keough
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
~ Karl Barth
God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.
~ Laurence Overmire
Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.
~ Atul Gawande
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
~ H. L. Mencken
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.
~ Samuel Johnson
I love Nicole Holofcener's films for their constant duality of humor and emotion and their focus on very real, if flawed, dynamics between funny people.
~ Susanna Fogel
Vulnerable, messed-up, inadequate
~ Nick Hornby
Of course, everyone has something wrong with him, that's for sure, but this guy probably had something really wrong.
~ Nora Ephron
He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.
~ Nora Roberts
Now the 1990s seem like a period when the world was starting to go crazy, but not so crazy that it was unmanageable or irreparable. It was the end of the twentieth century, but also the end to an age when we controlled technology more than technology controlled us. People played by the old rules, despite a growing recognition that those rules were flawed. It was a good time that happened long ago, although not nearly as long ago as it seems.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Using flawed segmentation schemes, they often introduce products that customers don't want, because they aim at a target that is irrelevant to what customers are trying to get done.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
That wild flash of imagination, that lightning crack of genius in the middle of them which leaves them flawed and imperfect, but starred with poetry.
~ Virginia Woolf
There was no getting around it. Whether it was a chronic deceiver like Jacob, a horn-dog like Samson, a never-believe-God-the-first-time warrior like Gideon, or a zealous persecutor like the apostle Paul, God had a way of blessing and using the wrong people.
~ Larry Osborne
We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on, pet.
~ Lauren Myracle
We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes.
~ Lauren Myracle
Flawed past is history; flawed present is opportunity.
~ Terri Guillemets