Flawed Person Quotes

#1. Consider that if artist equals self, then when (inevitably) you make flawed art, you are a flawed person, and when (worse yet) you make no art, you are no person at all!

David Bayles

#2. Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.

Tara Brach

#3. I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.

Mark Lanegan

#4. 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

#5. I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation was passed at his insistence. JFK showed what you could do, though he was a deeply flawed person, as we all now know.

Jed S. Rakoff

#6. If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed.

Palle Oswald

#7. Jesus was the only perfect person, so all other people God uses are sinful and flawed.

Vance C. Kessler

#8. Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, magical person that your are.

Mandy Hale

#9. No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

Nathan Fillion

#10. I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.

Amber Benson

#11. I don't know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

John Green

#12. Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. I wanted to explore that and shine a light on it. Chip is trying to be a better person and lead a better life. His methods are just super flawed.

Will Arnett

#13. I say what I think. I'm a real person, not some manufactured pop tart who's afraid to step out of the hotel room. I am flawed. I swear, I have the occasional cocktail, I pick my nose and I fart. I'm not running for any presidential campaign at the moment. I'm a sassy girl.

Katy Perry

#14. I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

Gary Johnson

#15. Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.'

Scott Thompson

#16. As flawed as Southern culture is, mendacity has always been treated in the South as a despicable characteristic. Notice how often Southerners casually address others as "you son of a bitch" with no insult intended. When the same person calls someone a "lying son of a bitch," you know he's serious.

James Lee Burke

#17. Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

Emily Haines

#18. Relationships are not tailor-made and people are flawed. You have to work around that and love the other person anyway. Our flaws are what make us unique,

Jay Crownover

#19. I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.

A.M. Homes

#20. A similar criticism arose in the guise of "reflexivity," the idea that the very act of observing another person's actions changes those actions, making observational methods intrinsically flawed.

Anonymous

#21. He wasn't an animal. He was the most intelligent, complicated person I'd ever met. He may not be good or virtuous, but he was human, flawed and powerful. And I cried because he needed me too.

Skye Warren

#22. One of the most liberating things a person can do is to admit that he or she is human and is flawed.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#23. On a basic level, it's actually very simple, Ella. Dr. Hakim's words. Not one single person on this planet is perfect. Every single one of us is deeply flawed. Either we accept that fact and forgive ourselves for the mistakes we're bound to make, or we let them destroy us. But

Harper Bliss

#24. Every day I must prove to myself I am a writer. The knowledge goes away in my sleep. What I wrote yesterday was paltry, meager, so flawed it is barely anything. Or, if it is good, I am no longer the person who could write it.

Bonnie Friedman

#25. Religious hypocrisy is one of the great barriers to faith for any thoughtful person. Why become a Christian when the church is filled with so many hypocrites and deeply flawed people? Mark

John Ortberg

#26. To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.

Mary Jo Bang

#27. There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.

Maureen Johnson

#28. This [worldly suffering] is indeed the result of a flawed-vision. When this flawed-vision goes away, the world will be seen "As it is". By sitting with the 'Experienced Person' whose flawed-vision is gone, our flawed-vision will go away. Nothing else will make it go away.

Dada Bhagwan

#29. In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see it truthfully represented. And because it can be thrilling to be shocked and upset, and even to feel, for chilling moments, what it's like to be a bad person.

Russell Smith

#30. For every book that I write ... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life.

Jojo Moyes

#31. How do you know you're in love?" I asked her. "Because if it's determined by how willing you are to give up everything for the other person, I think it's a flawed system.

Diana Peterfreund

#32. I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.

Jami Attenberg