Flaw Quotes

216 quotes by 187 authors

The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent. — Unknown Author
All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes. — Jennifer McMahon
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'â€“which states that the number of potential connections in a network is… — Paul Krugman
Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-donâ€™t you realize that? — Steven Erikson
Iâ€™m constantly embarrassed. I fidget and twist my hair and pull weird faces and stutter. Some days I feel quite confident, then others thereâ€™s a… — Graham Coxon
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
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
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
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
Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always. — Richard Marcinko
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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