Flaws Quotes - Page 5

• I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn't like to miss or lose.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Soccer, Sports

  "Cristiano Ronaldo apologises after being sent off for Real Madrid", www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2009.

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• No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

  James Russell Lowell

  Enemy, Desire, Needs

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• I don't want to point out her flaws, but if I see her going on a self-destructive path, isn't it up to me as her friend to stop her?

  Simone Elkeles

  Self, Want, Path

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Pussy really is the ultimate motivator of all mankind. No, don't clap, this is a flaw in the system!

  Doug Stanhope

  Pussy, Mankind, Ultimate

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• He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers.

  Pete Wentz

  Disappointment, Daggers

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• That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.

  Cynthia Weil

  Writing, Clothes, Creative

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• There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Kids, Golf

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• Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.

  Gosho Aoyama

  Jealousy, Perfect, Want

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• The beauty of social media is that it will point out your company's flaws; the key questions is how quickly you address these flaws.

  Erik Qualman

  Keys, Media, Addresses

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• The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Spy, Lenses

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There is a fundamental flaw in interpretations of sharia that say a woman or man should be punished for sex outside of marriage.

  Asra Nomani

  Sex, Men, Should

  Interview with Shimaila Matri Dawood, newslinemagazine.com. April 2005.

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• Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.

  Francesco Clemente

  Fashion, Acceptance, Perfection

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• Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and enjoyable for one reader as the next. But novels and other book-length narratives are great rambling things that always contain some flaws. For works of any length, there comes a point when your continued tinkering won't improve the whole, but will just trade one set of problems for another.

  Bruce Holland Rogers

  Art, Book, Perfect

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• We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.

  Sharon Begley

  Inspirational, Looks, Study

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• The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.

  Leon Trotsky

  Lying, Reality, Wish

  Leon Trotsky, Joseph Hansen, George Edward Novack, James Burnham (1965). “In Defense of Marxism: Against the Petty-bourgeois Opposition”

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• It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.

  John Keats

  Summer, Sky, Singing

  'To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.' (written 1818)

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• I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.

  Lorde

  Real, Two, Perfect

  Lorde @lorde, twitter.com. March 31, 2014.

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• I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back.

  Cammie McGovern

  Love You, Weakness, Selfless

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• We are left with the feeling that the church has overdone it, no matter how you cut it, and that homosexuals have certainly suffered more wrong than they have committed, and that there must be flaws in whatever theology of nature or hierarchy of sins has made homosexuality be viewed as the nadir of depravity... This feeling increases when one becomes acquainted with responsible, Christian, homosexual people.

  Paul King Jewett

  Christian, Cutting, Gay

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• Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts

  Thom Yorke

  Black, Trying, Concerts

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• Don't hesitate to seek external help or advice where need be. Sometimes, it takes an external, emotionally unattached individual to detect your business flaws and render unbiased advice.

  Richard Branson

  Advice, Survival, Needs

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• Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.

  Grantland Rice

  Golf, Simple, Swings

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• Love is not about two people doing things similar. It is about two people doing things differently to cover one another's flaws, and making it a perfect whole.

  Marion Jones

  Love, Two, People

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• All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Character, Intimate Relationships

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• The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.

  Elmer Eric Schattschneider

  Strong, Class, Heaven

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