Flawed Quotes - Page 15

• He loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our resume but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Children, Selfish, Love Is

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• Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Beautiful, Strong, Hero

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jun 22, 2011

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• People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, People, Principles

  "MITT SCORCHES NEWT WITH HEAVY BUY FOR ’97 BROKAW CLIP –Obama to Auto Show -- POTUS gives Google+ interview Mon. – Remembering Mayor White -- Robbi Dickens has #4 – Maria Comella bday". www.politico.com. February 28, 2012.

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• It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Government, People

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• My son doesn't know how flawed I am, how flawed we are. He still likes us so much, and that's so incredible to be around.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Son, Likes, Incredibles

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• 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?'

  Michael Moore

  Individual, Jesuit, Raised

  "Michael and me". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2004.

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• For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him.

  Julie Garwood

  Angel, Duncan, Accomplished

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Honor's Splendour”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

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• Even as she’d come to know the real Ralston—the Ralston who was not cut from heroic cloth—Callie had failed to see the truth. And, instead of seeing her own heartbreak coming, she had fallen in love, not with her fantasy, but with this new, flawed Ralston.

  Sarah MacLean

  Real, Cutting, Heroic

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• We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

  Sarah Vowell

  Mean, Thinking, Individuality

  Sarah Vowell (2013). “Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• America comes from a flawed but wonderful idea. Many great things have sprung forth over the past few hundred years but there were deep issues in the beginning that now are starting to show up.

  Peter Buffett

  Past, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray do not confuse the exercise of the imagination with mere mendacity. I am a master of the mysteries of words, their meanings and music and mellifluous magic.

  Frances Hardinge

  Children, Exercise, Imagination

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?

  Alain de Botton

  Good Life, Taken, Ideas

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• That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Broken, Ego, Feelings

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.134, A&C Black

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• I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us. He gives us a need for love, and no way to get any. He gives us a desire to be liked, and personal attributes that make us utterly unlikable. Having placed his flawed and needy children in a world of exacting specifications, he deducts the difference between what we have and what we need from our hearts and our self-esteem and our mental health.

  George Saunders

  Running, Cheer, Children

  "George Saunders's funny, sad stories from a divided nation" by Chris Power, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2016.

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• Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Perfect, Stones, Diamond

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• We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Self, Practice

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• Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!

  Nnedi Okorafor

  Imperfect, Creatures

  Nnedi Okorafor (2011). “Who Fears Death”, p.119, Penguin

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• Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.

  Dan Brown

  Men, Spinning Out Of Control, Angels And Demons

  Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

  Amy Bloom

  Beauty, Beautiful, Sexy

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• [...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.

  Robert Musil

  Numbers, Add, Brilliant

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.

  Christopher Paolini

  Self, Names, World

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.2961, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even though he seems completely the most inhuman and infallible in costume. Psychologically he's one of the most complicated in both his strengths and his weaknesses. For me, one of his great strengths and weaknesses is that confidence. His emotional self-protection is one of the things that makes him heroic and sacrificing; he doesn't have a personal life. He sacrifices those to be the best hero he can be.

  Scott Snyder

  Hero, Character, Sacrifice

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• I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize.

  Haruki Murakami

  Realizing, Humans, Human Beings

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• What frustrates me is to see African-Americans behave as though what European-Americans say is worthwhile. It simply isn't. It's just some silly people who can make laws and have the power to enforce them. I'm often amazed at the conversations black people have about themselves. They ought to be having these conversations about white people. It's white people who are flawed and at fault.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Silly, People, Black

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• In case I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I want to make something clear - I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.

  Stella Young

  Sweet, Strong, Way In Life

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