Flaws Quotes - Page 8

• You can't fix a fundamentally broken law; you've got to replace it. That's why Congress can't save Obamacare with a few tweaks, despite what its defenders say. No quick fix can correct the main flaw: The law takes power away from patients and hands it to bureaucrats.

  Paul Ryan

  Law, Obamacare, Hands

  "Obamacare Is Beyond Repair' by Paul Ryan, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 6, 2015.

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• A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law.

  Big L

  War, Law, Wit

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• No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.

  Richard Simmons

  Precious Stones, Perfect, Focus

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

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• Like a red morn that ever yet betokened,
  Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field,
  Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds,
  Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.

  William Shakespeare

  Woe Unto, Bird, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (1843). “The Poems of William Shakspere: With Facts Connected with His Life”, p.42

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• Unfortunately, there is something of a flaw in this idealized picture of the way the scientific community discovers truth. And the flaw is that most scientific work never gets noticed. Study after study has shown that most scientific papers are read by almost no one, while a small number of papers are read by many people.

  James Surowiecki

  Science, Small Numbers, People

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.170, Anchor

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• I just want you that's it. All your flaws, mistakes, smiles, giggles, jokes, sarcasm. Everything. I just want you

  Sara Quin

  Love, Mistake, Sarcasm

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• What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Strong, Character, Weakness

  "A teen just trying to figure it out". TEDxTeen Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

  Mike Nichols

  Dream, Character, Serious

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• The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me.

  Nas

  Real, Mistake, Real Me

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

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• In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

  John Chancellor

  Character, People, Tragedy

  John Chancellor (1995). “The New News Business: A Guide to Writing and Reporting”, Harper Perennial

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• Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack in everyday life. Then you can take comfort in knowing they'll do it for you, as well. Accepting each other, flaws and all, is what love is all about.

  Gaelen Foley

  Cutting, Love Is, Knowing

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• Nothing stops the forward march of any creative endeavor like the need to do it absolutely perfectly. And who is to judge what is 'perfect' anyway? What I have judged full of flaws so many others have called terrific. Maybe the definition of Perfection is something that actually gets done.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Perfect, Judging, Creative

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 04, 2015

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• Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love Is, Compassion, Empathy

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• I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws.

  Tiger Woods

  Believe, Enlightenment, Achieve

  "Gandhi and Tiger Woods" by Robert Wright, www.slate.com. July 24, 2000.

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• If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

  T. D. Jakes

  Teaching, Way, Lovable

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• The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, God's Grace, Sin

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• The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

  Paul David Tripp

  Promise, Our Relationship, Change Yourself

  Timothy S. Lane, Paul David Tripp (2006). “Relationships: A Mess Worth Making”, p.7, David C Cook

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• By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

  Harvey Mackay

  Character, Leader, Arrogance

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• I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.

  Paul Newman

  Wife, Trying, Sense Of Humor

  "Newman remains animated at 81". Craig Modderno, Reuters, July 12, 2006.

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• When the world grinds you down, bent to tear you apart, cling to what you hold dear, and stay true to your heart. For the world has a way to dismantle your cause, to exploit what you lack and expose all your flaws. But when every layer of your being is gone, and it seems there's no point anymore to go on; just remember one thing, at the end of the day, when you have self-respect they can't take that away.

  Wes Fesler

  Heart, Self, The End Of The Day

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• The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Fall, Gravity, Falling Down

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• One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve.

  Irving Howe

  Passion, Wish, Social

  Irving Howe (1994). “A Critic's Notebook”, Harcourt

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• We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are.

  Neil Strauss

  Mean, Years, Twelve

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.166, Canongate Books

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• There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

  Neil Strauss

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Order

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• Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Past, Men, Genius

  Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.54, Picador

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