Flaws Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Don't fall into the trap of believing so deeply in your own ideology that you cannot even see the flaws in it.

  Glenn Beck

  Believe, Fall, Traps

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe (2011). “Being George Washington: The Indispensable Man, As You've Never Seen Him”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God's mercy and grace.

  Timothy Keller

  Moving, Commitment, Love Is

  Timothy Keller (2013). “The Obedient Master”, p.34, Penguin

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• Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Marriage, Giving

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.31, Penguin

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• We all have our flaws. But we overcome them. And sometimes, it's our flaws that make us who we are.

  Erin Hunter

  Overcoming, Who We Are, Sometimes

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• My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

  Anais Nin

  Pride, Worry, Talent

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• And now we're apart and you're just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn't make sense.

  Gaby Dunn

  Love, Life, Secret

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• Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

  Gillian Flynn

  Awful, Lasts, Spouse

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.292, Crown

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• I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved.

  Jewel

  Weed, Thinking, Simple

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• I'm not good at relationships I always manage to find the flaws sometimes in others but mostly my own. I foretell the ending then go and create the cause save myself and end up alone

  David Levithan

  Causes, Sometimes, Ends

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.41, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Defined

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn”, p.202, Macmillan

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• To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.

  Chris Colfer

  Giving, Pedestal, World

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• Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.

  Anne Fortier

  Men, Long, Events

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.34, Ballantine Books

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• I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Stronger, Shock, Humans

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• You have many flaws, he announced... “But there was one flaw that made all the other imperfections pale in comparison.” “Was?” she asked. “I don't have this flaw any longer?” “No, you don't.” “Pray tell,” she muttered in exasperation, “what was this terrible flaw?” He grinned. “You used to be English.

  Julie Garwood

  Imperfection, Praying, Used

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• He is nothing to look at, and yet I can’t stop looking at him. There is something beautiful in how his face is made, how all the tiny flaws blend together into something more perfect than perfection could ever be.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Beautiful, Perfect, Together

  Elizabeth Scott (2011). “As I Wake”, p.66, Penguin

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• I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Morning, Believe

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.

  Juliet Marillier

  Real, Understanding, Triumph

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.247, Pan Macmillan

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• I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.

  John Green

  Character, These Days, Intellectualism

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• I'd never taken to four foot creatures who had the uncanny ability to point out all my flaws in thirty second flat. And just for the record, I can too read without moving my lips.

  Darynda Jones

  Moving, Taken, Feet

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.39, Macmillan

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• Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.

  William Goldman

  Humiliation

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.247, A&C Black

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• When you love somebody, or something, its amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.

  Caroline Knapp

  Willing

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.10, Dial Press

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