Quotes About Human Failings

#1. The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

Dan Castellaneta

#2. Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#3. Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.

Nancy Friday

#4. Only Jesus Christ is uniquely qualified to provide that hope, that confidence, and that strength we need to overcome the world and rise above our human failings. To do so, we must place our faith in Him and live by His laws and teachings.

Ezra Taft Benson

#5. This is a church of tenderness and arrogance, of sparkling differences and human failings. There is no unmixing the two.

Joanna Brooks

#6. She takes after Laura in that respect: the same tendency towards absolutism, the same refusal to compromise, the same scorn for the grosser human failings. To get away with that, you have to be beautiful. Otherwise it seems mere peevishness.

Margaret Atwood

#7. Refusing to believe that change can occur at any moment is one of the worst of human failings.

Leigh Hershkovich

#8. In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

Rupert Sheldrake

#9. Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

C.E.M. Joad

#10. I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.

Andrew Lansley

#11. My only boss was the clock on the wall and my only friend, never really was a friend at all. I've traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less. Lost my ideas in that long tunnel of time. And I've turned inside out and around about and back and then found myself right back where I started again

Jim Croce

#12. The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over.

Dick Cheney

#13. Only when we accept and forgive all that is or has been the good, the bad, and the ugly of our human lives can we get off the guilt trip and back into the flow. That means we must love our humanness and all of our failings; we must accept, learn from, and yes, even love our mistakes.

Sonia Choquette

#14. As the revolution was made by human beings, it was burdened with their failings.

Jung Chang

#15. What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?

Jane Addams

#16. No one is as they seem, and most of life, apart from honest betrayal, is lies and deceit. And the day we discover we are no different is the day we no longer want to live.

Jo Nesbo

#17. I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.

Ed Begley Jr.

#18. I throw my curveball like Clayton Kershaw and my fastball like Mo'ne Davis.

Mo'ne Davis

#19. And that's the bottom line, cuz Stone Cold said so!

Stone Cold Steve Austin

#20. In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.

Alfred Hitchcock

#21. We should treat with indulgence every human folly,
failing, and vice, bearing in mind that what we have
before us are simply our own failings, follies, and vices.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#22. Later, dictating the tale into his comlog, the Consul remembered it as a seamless whole, minus the pauses, hoarse voice, false starts, and small redundancies which were the timeless failings of human speech

Dan Simmons

#23. We don't grow on accident, we grow on purpose.

John C. Maxwell

#24. I tell them that Im a lesbian but doesnt seem to matter to them - they see in the media is that we havent met the right guy yet, or that weve been raped or abused by our daddies and were just waiting for Mr. Right to come sweep us off our feet, and Im really tired of seeing that.

Jill Bennett

#25. Strategize yearly, plan quarterly, examine monthly, reflect weekly, act daily, and live #intentionally.

Farshad Asl

#26. His legacy, if there is one, is that I try to do my best to see people whole, for who they are and what they've been through. especially those who matters to me

Richard North Patterson

#27. My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

Jorge Luis Borges

#28. My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.

William Shatner

#29. The massively built old man was tired, despite his customary show of energy. I guess when you get up into that bracket, Herbert decided, you have to act in a certain way; you have to appear more than a human with merely ordinary failings.

Philip K. Dick

#30. I know it's financially lucrative to go out on my own, but I don't like it. It's really hard work, just the performance aspect. I like people who look like they've been together for too long and sound like they've been together too long. I like rock n' roll bands.

Jason Isbell

#31. To see the beauties, mysteries and magics of your existence look at it with intense love, child's wonder and joyful heart.

Debasish Mridha

#32. I had sucked on the tit of disillusionment and teethed on the bitter root of cynicism. I was on the way to the misanthropy that would sour me.

Norman Lock

#33. Sleeping in the same bed with someone to whom you can admit your failings is a lasting comfort indeed. This is not about "mea culpa" as surrender, it is about "mea culpa" as mortar in binding together the uneven bricks of a human foundation.

Michael Perry

#34. I have been mastered at last, sweet Cyn, helpless in the face of that most human of failings, I love you.

D.B. Reynolds

#35. Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.

Vincent Van Gogh

#36. Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing failings, healing wounds, engendering hope, strengthening our sense of community.

Parker J. Palmer

#37. Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#38. All human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who have lived together over long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#39. The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

Publilius Syrus

#40. You have left Your Beloved and are thinking of others:
and this is why your work is in vain.

Kabir