Flawed Quotes

By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?

Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.

[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

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.

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

Every team is flawed. There hasn't been a truly complete team in a while.

Nobody's perfect. I'm perfectly flawed.

It doesn't matter how good the card is if the issuance process is flawed.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

Reporters, even flawed reporters, should not be jailed for protecting even flawed sources.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used.

It's fun to play people who are flawed.

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

I realize that I'm pretty flawed, but you know - I haven't killed anybody yet.

If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'

I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

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.

Hillary Rodham Clinton was America's chief diplomat. So let's look around at the violence and danger in our world today in every region of the world that has been infected with her flawed judgment.

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.

We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

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

I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.

It's made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it's a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things are somewhat flawed.

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.

Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

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.

Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.

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

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

Both trials are marred with injustice, both are flawed.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights that are right in front of them.

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn't give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts.