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Tag Name "Flaw" (153)

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Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.
Mark Lawrence
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In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.
John Chancellor
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.
Dave Barry
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The fundamental flaw in Social Security and Medicare is that they violate the 'welfare principle' in economics. The welfare principle forms the fundamental basis of all charitable work in churches and other private organizations: assist those who need help, and equally important, don't assist individuals who can take care of themselves.
Mark Skousen
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I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny.
Steve Carell
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Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you.
Charlaine Harris
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All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.
Jennifer McMahon
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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
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By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.
Harvey Mackay
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No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that.
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
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Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!
Billy Graham
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The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.
John Mortimer
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He was royalty. So what? Everyone had a flaw.
Gena Showalter
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The flaw is the thing we love.
Gail Caldwell
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All of modern physics is governed by that magnificent and thoroughly confusing discipline called quantum mechanics ... It has survived all tests and there is no reason to believe that there is any flaw in it. We all know how to use it and how to apply it to problems and so we have learned to live with the fact that nobody can understand it.
Murray Gell-Mann
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My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.
Lance Armstrong
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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 of those whose lives it wishes to improve.
Irving Howe
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius
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Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.
Terry Tempest Williams
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
Veronica Roth
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Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as artificial life. Rather than representing a scientific achievement, this probably represents a flaw in our definition.
Gene Spafford
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
Martial
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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 eternal motion.
Leon Trotsky
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