Flaws Quotes - Page 33

• Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Eye, Precious Stones, Honor

  "The Forbes Book of Business Quotations" by Edward C. Goodman, Ted Goodman, (p. 411), 1997.

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• Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?

  Simonides of Ceos

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  "The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles". 429 BC.

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• I don't see makeup as a defense. I see it as a creative outlet. I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage--and at times I feel extremely weak. And who's to say a little mascara doesn't make you feel more confident when you pop it on and look in the mirror? It helps, especially in my position, where I have people waiting down the street to take pictures of me so they can evaluate and criticize every little flaw on my face.

  Christina Aguilera

  Makeup, Mirrors, People

  "Christina: Intimate Talk About a Past That Still Hurts". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. November 30, 2006.

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• There are so many numerical financial flaws in ObamaCare. Young people realize I'll take the penalty. I'll deal with whatever it takes for the next couple of years. Maybe a couple years down the road, they will start to pay.

  Eric Bolling

  Couple, Years, Obamacare

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• Marriage is an excercise in learning our flaws everyday

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Everyday

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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• I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know Im vulnerable too and each one of us is.

  Tim Gunn

  Past, Issues, People

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• That's what God does. He doesn't try to cover up our flaws; He starts from scratch and makes us new.

  Sharon Jaynes

  Trying, Doe, Scratches

  Sharon Jaynes (2007). “The Power of a Woman's Words”, p.80, Harvest House Publishers

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• My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.

  Lance Armstrong

  Attitude, Winning, Arrogance

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 18, 2013.

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• Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial book is the most powerful and profound treatment of Ellison's undeniable artistic genius, deep personal flaws, and controversial political evolution. And he reveals an Ellison unbeknownst to all of us. From now on, all serious scholarship on Ellison must begin with Rampersad's instant and inimitable classic in literary biography.

  Cornel West

  Powerful, Book, Class

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• The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Immaturity, Adults, Plus

  "Collection of the works of Nelson Rodrigues: the 1000 best quotes by Nelson Rodrigues" by Companhia das Letras, (p. 94), 1992.

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• Being a dad has made me more aware of myself. I can see all of my virtues and flaws. They become glaringly clear when my daughter communicates with me in the same ways that I communicate with her. I can really tell where and when I went wrong.

  Harold Perrineau

  Daughter, Dad, Way

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• I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn't understand why the happiness never came, couldn't see the flaw in my thinking, couldn't see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again.

  Heather King

  Drinking, Procrastination, Thinking

  Heather King (2006). “Parched”, p.100, Penguin

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• The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.

  Steven Weber

  Math, Imperfection, Austerity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

  David Weber

  Children, Men, Evil

  David Weber (2008). “Off Armageddon Reef”, p.250, Macmillan

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• Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.

  Michael Ian Black

  Couple, Children, Spring

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you would be done by." It has one or 2 flaws, but it is a good soundbite. Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, People, Evil

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.

  Aaron Copland

  Names, Musician, Composing

  Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”

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• The thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human. They're full of flaws as much as they are full of heroics. I think the reason that people love them and hate them so much is because, in some way, they always see a mirror of themselves in them, and you can always understand them on some level. Sometimes it's a terrifyingly dark mirror that's held up. 

  Keira Knightley

  Hate, Character, Dark

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• Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.

  Samantha Power

  Summer, War, Israel

  Interview with in Molly Lanzarotta, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, March 14, 2007.

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