Flaws Quotes - Page 10

• Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

  Tony Wilson

  Pride, Gun, Drug

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• If you’re going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you’d better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.

  Paul Orfalea

  Love Yourself, Self Love, Enjoy Life

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• I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Found, Pitcher, Delivery

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• Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.

  Keith O'Brien

  Majority, Belief, Honest

  "Paedophile priests have left Catholics confused and demoralised, cardinal to say" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2010.

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• Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

  Andrew Solomon

  Loss, Despair, Anticipation

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• She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

  Truman Capote

  Perfect

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• Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Confucius, Mencius, 左丘明 (1971). “The Chinese classics with a translation, critical and exegetical notes: prolegomena and copious indexes”

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• My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

  Isabel Allende

  Secret, Worst, My Own

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• I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Vegetarianism, People, Trying

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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• Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Never Trust, Surface, Multitudes

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “Masquerade: Number 2 in series”, p.190, Hachette UK

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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 philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be.

  Gwen Cooper

  Children, Philosophy, Personality

  Gwen Cooper (2010). “Homer's Odyssey”, p.15, Random House

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• Don't show your flaws.

  Drew Barrymore

  Shows

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• 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

  Hero, Dark, Men

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• I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Love, Believe, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Lisa Kleypas from Sep 20, 2010

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• 'You hate America, don't you?'
  'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.'

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Pain, Hate, Real

  "Mother Night". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1961.

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• if I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all the flaws, chips, and cracks disappear I will be the cup that stands on the shelf and is never used

  Joyce Rupp

  Perfect, Ungrateful, Waiting

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• Despite my best efforts, I'm not quite perfect. Let's just say I'm like one of those Hopi blankets where they leave a tiny flaw so as to not affront the Lord.

  Jen Lancaster

  Best Effort, Perfect, Tiny

  Jen Lancaster (2006). “Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office”, p.17, Penguin

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• What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot.

  Ken Kesey

  Running, Years, Guy

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.7, Hamilton Books

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• The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.

  Scott Adams

  Relationship, Significant Change, Imagination

  Scott Adams (2004). “God's Debris: A Thought Experiment”, p.112, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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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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• I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Thinking, Interesting

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.138, Penguin

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• Oh, it is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves us—even with all our flaws! His love is such that even should we give up on ourselves, He never will. We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever. Although we might settle for less, Heavenly Father won’t, for He sees us as the glorious beings we are capable of becoming.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Giving Up, Father, Love Is

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• . . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

  Richard Paul Evans

  War, Character, Winter

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• The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.

  Rick Riordan

  Moderation, Dangerous

  Rick Riordan (2008). “Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse”, p.217, Penguin UK

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