Flawed Quotes

#1. So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out.

Charles Wheelan

#2. I can say this: don't give up. Not on love but, more important still, not on you. Never let yourself believe that you are unlovable or flawed in any way. You deserve to be loved. You deserve kind words and an unwavering eye.

Menna Van Praag

#3. People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.

Carlisle Floyd

#4. Van Dusen emphasizes that our common conception of the mentally ill is flawed. The majority of them, he says, are not "raving lunatics" as one might think. "Most of these people have become entangled in inner processes and simply fail to manage their lives well.

Louis Proud

#5. We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

Sarah Vowell

#6. Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.

Trevanian

#7. [...] The little everyday neglect of imagining other people well can add up to a lifetime of flawed, perverted vision, an expenditure of soul in a waste of emotionalism.

David Dark

#8. I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with some sort of professionalism.

Justin Broadrick

#9. 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

#10. I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#11. Dogs, being wordless, can only be mirrors of their humans. It's not their fault that their people are fatally flawed.

Lauren Groff

#12. I've always felt a kinship with Willy Wonka. Even at that age, I could tell that he was a flawed hero, an icon for the forbidden. The forbidden in this case was chocolate, a metaphor for indulgence and anything you're not supposed to have, be it sex, drugs, alcohol or pornography.

Marilyn Manson

#13. 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

#14. There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.
Thus I lust over the flawless,
and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.

Ilyas Kassam

#15. My current fear is that the message being sent by the level of vitriol surrounding Gillard's flawed leadership (but tell me whose wasn't flawed) is being heard by Australian women and girls loud and clear. And the message is: 'Don't aspire to high office,sweetheart, because we'll flay you alive.'

Jane Caro

#16. I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

Craig Kilborn

#17. I am supposed to worry about oceans rising 70 years from now, on climate models that have already proven to be utterly flawed?

Dennis Prager

#18. It's fun to play people who are flawed.

Brad Garrett

#19. Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

Aimee Bender

#20. The flawed human error is expecting someone else to build the world we desire, rather than creating it for ourselves.

Shawn Stern

#21. A question I've thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.

Gabrielle Zevin

#22. Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They're flawed.

Sandra Brown

#23. One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

Nicholas Kristof

#24. Sometimes I'm not always doing amazing but it's okay ... because everyone struggles and it's okay to be flawed because that's what makes me ... Me.

Demi Lovato

#25. I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.

Lance Armstrong

#26. For some reason, her words snapped the zip-tie that had been holding his secret. She'd just given him permission to be flawed.

Tammy L. Gray

#27. Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#28. To be human is to be beautifully flawed

Eric Wilson

#29. The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

Paul Auster

#30. The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

Timothy Keller

#31. ...we'd be okay. Not perfect, not entirely healthy, not even rational where our love for one another was concerned. Just okay. Merely sufficient, at best. But there'd be only acceptance - never shame - in being two divine failures as we emerged from slumber, perfectly flawed, and wide awake.

AngstGoddess003

#32. Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

Susan Rice

#33. The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.

Xavier Dolan

#34. Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

Gene Robinson

#35. I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.

Emraan Hashmi

#36. Sascha. The only child she had ever borne. The cardinal who everyone had told Nikita was flawed, but who she'd known was a power who could not be allowed to come into her own. To do so would equal her death. So she'd crushed her child, and in so doing, saved her life and forever lost her.

Nalini Singh

#37. Marriage [is] two flawed people coming together to create a space of stability, love and consolation, a haven in a heartless world.

Timothy Keller

#38. I don't know about forgiving, but it's an "I'm still here." And it's not just because I have nowhere else to go. It's because I believe in the possibility. I believe in the possibility of another way of being. Let's make other kinds of mistakes; let's be flawed differently.

Claudia Rankine

#39. The Libor system is structurally flawed. It is a major problem for our financial system and for the confidence in the financial system. We need to address it.

Ben Bernanke

#40. I see this piece of legislation as essentially being a declaration of virtual war. It is giving the President tremendous powers to pursue war efforts against a sovereign nation ... I think it is another example of a flawed foreign policy that we have followed for a good many decades.

Ron Paul

#41. Even if we've inherited a flawed past with so many disadvantages, we've the unlimited power to use today and inherit a glorious tomorrow...

Assegid Habtewold

#42. That which reduces our flawed vision is called religion [dharma]. It is non-religion [adharma] that increases a flawed vision. The worldly life is indeed the result of a flawed vision.

Dada Bhagwan

#43. The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.

Paul David Tripp

#44. Jealousy, like the flawed love that bears it, has no respect for time or space or wisely reasoned argument.

Gregory David Roberts

#45. 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

#46. Less of a Galahad than a Lancelot, thought Archer. A flawed knight in a flawed world, unstable yet unyielding.

David Gemmell

#47. As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.

James Badge Dale

#48. If any religion turns against love of equal partners, there's something flawed with the religion, not the love.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#49. Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce. It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973.

Mike Huckabee

#50. Remember that we are all flawed, but that does not mean we don't deserve love.

J.J. McAvoy

#51. It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

Mindy Kaling

#52. Historians will remember the first year of Microsoft Windows 10 for its willful vandalism of many computers through the release of a flawed operating system (OS) and mandatory flaky automatic updates.

Steven Magee

#53. Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable billionaire, everyone in 'Spider-Man' is human and flawed.

Rhys Ifans

#54. When you say things they don't want to hear, it's like holding a mirror up to them and asking them to look at themselves. It's much easier for them to turn the mirror back on you and claim that your thinking is flawed.

Merry Freer

#55. I would like to do any way possible that Howard Stark can make a return. He's such a fun character to play, and I really believe that he could make quite an exciting character to watch more of. The flawed entrepreneur, the kind of crazy playboy, from that era is an exciting concept.

Dominic Cooper

#56. Nobody's perfect. I'm perfectly flawed.

Evanescence

#57. I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.

Kit Williamson

#58. We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

Lizz Winstead

#59. We're the only ones who care now. The likes of you and me, Ono, when we look back over our lives and see they were flawed, we're the only ones who care now.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#60. Over the years, that investors continued to fund Pike's grandiose predictions, the price of coal was high enough to send men day after day into a flawed & dangerous place. Now that they are dead the price is not high enough to get them out

Rebecca Macfie

#61. As long as the vision is flawed, egoism is evident. Therefore, one has to get rid of the flaws.

Dada Bhagwan

#62. Relationships tend to be flawed because they are made up of inherently flawed components, mere human beings.

Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#63. Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.

Vince Cable

#64. I often refer to shame as the fear of disconnection
the fear of being perceived as flawed and unworthy of acceptance or belonging.

Brene Brown

#65. The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to the audience in any traditional sense, which for me is what makes them all the more gorgeous. And the fearless truth of that is what makes it funny.

Carrie Preston

#66. Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)

Brene Brown

#67. But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

Adam Schiff

#68. You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

Amy Bloom

#69. Was I the only one who saw how flawed I was?

Kiera Cass

#70. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether you let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.

Cecelia Ahern

#71. Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized ... because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers' arguments were deeply flawed.

William Wilberforce

#72. I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.

Gia Coppola

#73. Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

Tobsha Learner

#74. every day, no matter how flawed. And we must have faith in God, and in the Universe, and in a better tomorrow, even if that faith is not always deserved.

Mark T. Sullivan

#75. I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white.
Remember this.

Cecelia Ahern

#76. Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market.

Gray Davis

#77. I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.

Shia Labeouf

#78. The justice system is flawed, and that just because you're overtly guilty doesn't actually mean you're actually going to go away, to jail.

Rashida Jones

#79. There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

Ellen Pompeo

#80. But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.

Sheldon Vanauken

#81. Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

Erin Morgenstern

#82. The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

Timothy Ferriss

#83. Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

Daniel Quinn

#84. Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Alice Walker

#85. I am unique, a sheep, intimidating, scared, powerful, beautiful, flawed, and perfect in the same moment.

Kristin Cast

#86. I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

C.J. Box

#87. I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.

Winona Ryder

#88. There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It's like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm.

Rob Manuel

#89. Shakespeare didn't conceive of his tragedy in Aristotelian terms - that is, as a tragedy of the fall of a flawed great man - but rather as a collision of deeply held and irreconcilable principles, embodied in characters who are destroyed when these principles collide.

James Shapiro

#90. Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened. That doesn't mean that at all times memories are telling us the absolute truth, but that the main source of who we are is that memory, flawed or not.

Tobias Wolff

#91. Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws but because we let go of seeking perfection and, instead, seek God, the one who is present in the tangledness of our lives.

Mike Yaconelli

#92. A portion of guilt is standard issue for southern boys; our whole lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our fathers have made us such flawed husbands.

Pat Conroy

#93. I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

Emily Giffin

#94. 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

#95. There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.

John Coleman

#96. Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

Brit Marling

#97. Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.

Fred Upton

#98. Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be flawed, but the way they may develop is endlessly fascinating.

Michael Broadbent

#99. Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

Danny Huston

#100. When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.

Kerry Greenwood