Patrick Ness Quotes

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.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

Everybody has their weaknesses.

I've got so many weaknesses.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.

Bad's the best of us.

Nobody is completely perfect.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.

Human nature is weak.

Human beings are weak.

We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.

The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.

I am not strong on perfection.

In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect.

Men are very much to be pitied in that they are to be governed by a king who is but a man like them; for it would require Gods to reform men. But kings are not less to be pitied, since being but men, that are weak and imperfect, they are to govern this innumerable multitude of corrupt and deceitful men.

No man lives without fault.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.

Losers are more like the rest of us. They make mistakes they can't take back.

I have a whole phone book of fallibility about myself.

We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not.