Flaws Quotes - Page 11

• ... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Mistake, Reading, Men

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• He Sipped his coffee, watched the flames. "You gave me my life, you did," He insisted when Summerset made a protesting sound. "And I worked-in my fashion- to build this place. I asked you to tend it for me. You've never let me down. But I needed her. The one thing, the only thing that could make this place home." "She's not what I would have chosen for you" "Oh, that I know" "But she's right for you. The one for you." Despite, or maybe due to, her many flaws" "I imagine she thinks the same thing about you". Memory in Death, Roarke and Summerset

  Nora Roberts

  Fashion, Memories, Coffee

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• Okay, so if that's not real, what is? What counts, to you?" He thought for a second, then said, "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." I wasn't sure what answer I'd expected. But this wasn't it. For a second, I just sat there, letting it sink in. "You know," I said finally, "saying stuff like that would make girls even crazier for you. Now you're cuteand somewhat more attainable. If you were appealing before, now you're off the charts.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Real, Mean

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

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• Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.

  Christopher Paolini

  Eragon, Behavior, Terrible

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• I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Character, Men, True Evil

  Jonathan Maberry (2015). “The Joe Ledger Series, Books 1-3: Patient Zero, The Dragon Factory, The King of Plagues”, p.18, St. Martin's Griffin

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• When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)

  Nora Roberts

  Inspirational, Marriage, Crazy

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.1136, Penguin

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• The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.

  William Goldman

  Chocolate, Study, Found

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.

  Richard Russo

  Character, Simple, Law

  Richard Russo (2017). “Straight Man”, p.254, Atlantic Books

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• I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Clever, Smart, Character

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• Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is them. This crucial principle, deeply embedded in Western culture, suffices to undermine even the most precise analogy and the most impeccable reasoning.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Principles, Western Culture

  "Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians". Book by Ilan Pappé and Noam Chomsky, January 20, 2009.

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• You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you’re doing, where you are, who you’re with, and if you’re OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect, love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with someone who could make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Love, Dream, Heart

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• ...I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me

  Gene Wolfe

  Real, Made

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.119, Macmillan

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• The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Jobs, Growing Up, Parenting

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• The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

  Rick Riordan

  Fighting, Evil, Easy

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

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• that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Love You, Inability, Perceive

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Resentment

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.206, Penguin

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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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• The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.

  Anna Godbersen

  Afterlife, Made, Passing

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• Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Average, Giving, Perfect

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.153, Macmillan

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• The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism - his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.

  Jon Krakauer

  Trying, Stubborn, Virtue

  "Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman". Book by Jon Krakauer, 2009.

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• -You think I’ve got a big ego and an attitude problem? -I don’t think you do, Carlos. I know it. Unfortunately, it’s a Fuentes flaw. -I’d call it an asset. It’s what makes us Fuentes brothers irresistible. Carlos and Brittany

  Simone Elkeles

  Brother, Attitude, Thinking

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• Still, that's the point of love; you love someone despite their flaws.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Love You, Love Someone, Stills

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  I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

  Sandra Bullock

  Weakness, Facts, Made

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• I have met many entrepreneurs who have the passion and even the work ethic to succeed - but who are so obsessed with an idea that they don't see its obvious flaws. Think about that. If you can't even acknowledge your failures, how can you cut the rope and move on?

  Kevin O'Leary

  Moving, Passion, Cutting

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• What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

  Pablo Picasso

  Pain, Artist, Insecurity

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