Fatal Flaws Quotes

• Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Real, Believe, Hero

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “God Bless You, Mr Rosewater”, p.142, Random House

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• The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Fall, Flaws, Gravity

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• Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Pride, Thinking

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series”, p.173, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.

  Donna Tartt

  Running, Dark, Thinking

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.7, Vintage

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• I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Coward, Matter

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• Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again. That is how mathematics is created; it has its fatal flaw.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Reality, Men

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1979). “Five novels”

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• The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

  Paul David Tripp

  Promise, Flaws, Our Relationship

  Timothy S. Lane, Paul David Tripp (2006). “Relationships: A Mess Worth Making”, p.7, David C Cook

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• That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Selfish, Keys

  C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• ... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

  Anne Perry

  Heart, Optimism, Brain

  Anne Perry (2011). “Callander Square”, p.184, Open Road Media

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• Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

  Donna Tartt

  Running, Dark, Doe

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.7, Vintage

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• Here in the United States, we're consumed by our love of money and status. We think bigger is better, and if we can just get that promotion, all will be well with our souls. There's one fatal flaw to this mindset: it's all smoke and mirrors.

  Jen Lilley

  Thinking, Mirrors, Soul

  "Count Your Blessings and Watch them Multiply" by Jen Lilley, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.

  James Cook

  Trying, Credit, Benefits

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• Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like a hot new idea to liberals, but soon goes to irksome and destructive extremes.

  Joseph Sobran

  Ideas, Hot, Enthusiasm

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• there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.

  Jodi Picoult

  Losing Friends, Triumph, Next

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• My fatal flaw is hubris. The brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? No, seaweed brain. That's hummus. Hubris is worse. What could be worse than hummus?

  Rick Riordan

  Brain, Sandwiches, Stuff

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• The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was very good at imagining a utopia that is constantly changing and very busy, but a vision of paradise that would have been most tantalizing to an underfed overworked factory worker in 1840 doesn't have much appeal in fiction because it's not a story.

  Christine Jennings

  Vision, Fiction, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The political disfunction that has brought about the shutdown and now threatens default, isn't so much gridlock. It is exposing the fatal flaw in our Constitution and highly distinct system of government. In other words, it's the Constitution's fault. Something truly catastrophic was bound to happen sooner or later.

  Chris Hayes

  Government, Political, Faults

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• The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.

  Edward M. Lerner

  Book, Energy, Needs

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• Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.

  Jodi Picoult

  Phones, Differences, Numbers

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• Normally when a person has a stellar image another person's waiting in the wings to tear them apart. They're waiting for that one fatal flaw to expose itself.

  Jay Asher

  Wings, Waiting, Tears

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.104, Penguin

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• It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rocks, Two, Once Upon A Time

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution. Even the most vile murderer does not release the state from its obligation to respect dignity, for the state does not honor the victim by< emulating his murderer. Capital punishment's fatal flaw is that it treats people as objects to be toyed with and discarded. . . . One day the Court will outlaw the death penalty. Permanently.

  William J. Brennan

  Law, Punishment, People

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• your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world.

  Rick Riordan

  Loyalty, Cutting, Loss

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• Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That's HUMMUS. hubris is worse. Percy: what could be worse than hummus? Annabeth: Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... Even the gods.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Pride, Thinking

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• And like I said, I didn't know him very well, but my ears perked up whenever I heard his name. I guess I wanted to hear something - anything - juicy. Not because I wanted to spread gossip. I just couldn't believe someone could be that good. If he was actually that good... wonderful. Great! But it became a personal game of mine. How long could I go on hearing nothing but good things about Clay Jensen? Normally, when a person has a stellar image, another person's waiting in the wings to tear them apart. They're waiting for that one fatal flaw to expose itself. But not with Clay.

  Jay Asher

  Believe, Games, Names

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.199, Penguin

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