Human Foibles Quotes

#1. I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.

Patricia Heaton

#2. Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Moliere

#3. If ... you are looking for a large dose of truth with some all too human foibles and faults and long nights of coffee drenched brains and frequent trips to the bathroom then this book is for you.

Leviak B. Kelly

#4. I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and ultimately triumph.

Oprah Winfrey

#5. I'm interested in this humbler approach, one that is more accepting of human foibles, and indeed sees dignity and peace as emerging more from that acceptance than from any method of transcending the human condition.

Thomas Moore

#6. I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.

Ed Greenwood

#7. As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.

Robin Williams

#8. Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism ... Skepticism they view with contempt, as the refuge of the unenlightened.

Wendy Kaminer

#9. His own dragon roared in turmoil in his head: protect her, crush her. Her kind is evil. Protect your mate. Slippery is the water dragon. His dragon roared the ancient saying, and the tips of his wings pushed again at his back.
You are starting to piss me off, he said to her.

Susannah Scott

#10. I have said it many a time, and am surer of it than ever, that the life and death issue of Christianity is the inspiration and authority of the Bible.

J. Sidlow Baxter

#11. I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.

Walt Disney

#12. To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth.

W. H. Auden

#13. When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.

William Monahan

#14. The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

Djimon Hounsou

#15. Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.

Giulio Douhet

#16. My third maxim was to try always to master myself rather than fortune and change my desires rather than changing how things stand in the world.

Rene Descartes

#17. I don't make our bed in the morning, standing firm on the adolescent belief that there's no sense in doing something you're just going to undo at the end of the day.

Shauna Niequist

#18. I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other.

Paula Heller Garland

#19. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

Hannah More

#20. Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble.

Swami Vivekananda

#21. People are different in different places,' he thought hazily. 'And if they're all right in one place, it's best to leave them there.

Elizabeth Taylor

#22. They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

William Congreve

#23. I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

Denise Mina

#24. A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.

Zig Ziglar

#25. Being human doesn't mean you're weak, it just means you're subject to the same little quirks and foibles as the rest of us - for which you should be grateful.

Patricia Ryan

#26. A degree in psychiatry merely qualifies one to begin learning about the intricacies and foibles of the human personality.

Dan Simmons

#27. Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, themost rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.

Jane Austen

#28. I didn't always have things,
but I had people - I always
had people.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#29. We're all human. We have our foibles, we've made mistakes, and yet there is still greatness.

Michael Ansara