Flaw Quotes
216 quotes by 187 authors
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The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.
— Unknown Author
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All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.
— Jennifer McMahon
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I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It…
— Amanda Burton
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Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see…
— Diane Arbus
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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…
— Jean Genet
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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…
— Leon Trotsky
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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…
— John Keats
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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
— Unknown Author
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Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the…
— Andrew Solomon
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A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease,…
— Ayn Rand
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One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution.…
— William J. Brennan
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The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is…
— Paul Krugman
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Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-don’t you realize that?
— Steven Erikson
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I’m constantly embarrassed. I fidget and twist my hair and pull weird faces and stutter. Some days I feel quite confident, then others there’s a…
— Graham Coxon
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Most people can't find love because they're picky, they overanalyze and they find things wrong in people. We call them flaw finders.
— Patti Stanger
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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.…
— Robert D. Kaplan
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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…
— Irving Howe
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No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.
— Christy Mathewson
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Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.
— Richard Marcinko
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A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting…
— Desi Arnaz
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