Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.
Allie Burke
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NICHOLAS SPARKS My life wasn’t how I planned it would be. It wasn’t even close. It was a thousand times better.
NICOLE WILLIAMS I’ll always be broken,” I went on. “Because when I came here, no one fixed me. It’s not that...
TABITHA FREEMAN It’s the beauty that helps us return from the harshness. If it wasn’t there, we would have nothi...
SCARLETT DAWN She used to think that if she stole enough, the want would fade, the hunger would go away, but maybe...
V.E. SCHWAB I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but...
SARAH DESSEN It wasn’t just me, and it wasn’t just him, it was what we were together that was the exception.
JAMIE MCGUIRE Yeah, you got married, didn’t you? But,
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TARRYN FISHER Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100 Thanksgiving (U.S.) Eternal life is not...
EMIL BRUNNER I’m getting old and my memory is not as trustworthy as it once was, but I do not remember meeting ...
BOBBY W. MILLER Oh, who was she kidding? She wasn’t fucking lucky. But hope sprang eternal, for whatever stupid re...
STACIA KANE Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER Death could be waiting for him, but he wasn’t afraid. Whether it be sooner or later, he welcomed t...
CRAIG R. KEY It’s nice to have a station pet. Wish it wasn’t trapped in a hovering prison in the men’s bath...
CECIL BALDWIN The very word perfection is full of flaw,because it can't exist. Or is that what perfection is? Flaw...
ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ JR Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people wh...
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JEFFREY EUGENIDES And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.
STEPHEN KING I knew that, in my whole life, if I married Aspen or someone else, no one would ever make me feel th...
KIERA CASS God, if he wasn’t so handsome, strong,
sometimes sweet, didn’t have a Harley, that beard, a...
KRISTEN ASHLEY I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
FERNANDO PESSOA And he said that wasn’t brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung,’ said Cor...
NEIL GAIMAN It wasn’t like I made his world better. It was like I was his world. It wasn’t some explosion; i...
KIERA CASS It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.
ROBERT FULGHUM It wasn’t about gratification, but there was no need that wasn’t met, whether it was physical or...
STEPHENIE MEYER It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back agai...
NEIL GAIMAN Delay of pain: that was the meaning of life, wasn’t it?
“I’ve made some bad decisions,”...
MICHAEL GRANT The beautiful programme of Watson. its fatal flaw is that it's good for the lab and in the lab; but ...
ABRAHAM MASLOW It wasn’t me,” Lars supplied, from the front seat. “I didn’t tell.”
“Of course it ...
MEG CABOT If the past could be changed, it would not exist. If the future could be stopped, it would not survi...
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JAMES C. DOBSON Our relationship wasn’t easy. It wasn’t mellow. It wasn’t comfortable and sedate. He was too b...
KRISTEN ASHLEY Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Dex was many wonderful things but he wasn’t perfect – he was his own greatest enemy.
KARINA HALLE Bottom line? As much as you
wanted someone to change and believed they could, they were in cont...
J.R. WARD Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exis...
DONNA TARTT As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, stro...
J.M. RICHARDS Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you.
MANDY HALE He could have killed me for the blunder— which really wasn’t my fault— but I was lucky , and h...
FLOYD C. FORSBERG He wasn’t a good person, but I painted him to be and since I painted it, I believed it.
DOMINIC RICCITELLO I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER Life wasn’t about avoiding suffering.
PAUL KALANITHI But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compas...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn’t working for me when it wasn’t wo...
DEB CALETTI Carla had realised there wasn’t just one destined adventure in life, there were thousands of them.
CLAIRE CHILTON I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
HARUKI MURAKAMI There is a sense of danger in leaving what you know, even if what you know isn’t much. These mill ...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wa...
KAREN WHITE It was any combination of a thousand things, she told herself, but it wasn’t love. And
NICHOLAS SPARKS Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.
AMIT RAY There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark.
ZE FRANK You may think that love cannot last forever, but if you were to wake up with love in your heart ever...
DEVIN FRYE An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the ...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY Fairy tales were the door to the world of imagination for me as a child, that land I often lived in ...
REGAN WALKER It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It's OK not to be perfect, because perfect does not exist!
RICK PRICE Sometimes the clouds weren’t weightless. Sometimes their bellies got dark and full. It was life. I...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process
SOTONYE ANGA I hated reunions. It made myself felt so little afterwards. When I was there, I couldn’t help not ...
MARCELLA PURNAMA I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’...
JOJO MOYES This was the first time I had come face-to-face with the other side of fundamentalism. The fundament...
RICHARD ENGEL [She] had heard it said that there was only one emotion which, in recollection, was capable of resur...
LAINI TAYLOR I not often like the begining of something it has it owns doubts, loses and failures. But the end is...
DEYTH BANGER I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone w...
CASSANDRA CLARE I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face,...
HARRIET BROWN The stars were out in full, the crickets a little quieter. He had enjoyed talking to Allie and wonde...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we w...
ALAN MOORE My daddy always said being brave wasn’t not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you w...
SUSAN CRANDALL Noah: "You wanna dance with me?"
Allie: "Sure. Now?"
Noah: "Mmm Hmm"
Allie: "You're n...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To a parent, your child wasn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast ete...
CELESTE NG But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to som...
JODI PICOULT If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for lif...
ALLYSON JONES It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, a...
GILLIAN FLYNN There was still something unfinished around her eyes; she wasn’t done yet. She was a story, not an...
SEANAN MCGUIRE Yes, life always takes the side of life, and somehow the victims are blamed. But it wasn’t the bes...
ART SPIEGELMAN The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living do...
E. STANLEY JONES He’d always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn’t do proper...
TERRY PRATCHETT The entire time, he’d only ever looked at my body, never at my face, his empty eyes hungry, never ...
ASPEN MATIS The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eterna...
MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI It seemed like an ordinary day, but little did I know that this wasn’t going to be a normal ballet...
SARAH TODD HAMMER I would say it was nice to meet you, but I was naked so… it wasn’t.
SAMANTHA YOUNG She may have been only sixteen years old, but there was a new life growing inside of her. She fought...
VALENCIYA LYONS The grapes that my hands wouldn’t reach were undoubtedly sour.
But I didn’t need sweet frui...
WATARU WATARI These $40 burgers with foie gras and truffles and all of that flies in the face of one of the most p...
ADAM RICHMAN Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, for
coming home, for dealing with all the sh...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV He wasn’t a hero. He wasn’t the man who stepped forward and saved the innocent. He was lost hims...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN Everything you want is outside your comfort zone. If it wasn’t, you would already have it.
NICK KINSELLA If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting tha...
TOM ROBBINS We must have a religion — it goes without saying — but my idea is, to have it cut up into forty ...
MARK TWAIN If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... To my surprise, it was a place where my thoughts were the most lucid. I wasn’t bogged down in rand...
M.B. DALLOCCHIO It may almost always be the right thing for others but it usually wasn’t the right thing for you,�...
KRISTEN ASHLEY This speech wasn’t forever. Being embarrassed as not forever. None of this was forever. But trying...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.”
She wasn’t sure he could hear h...
RICK RIORDAN I’m so thankful for every hardship, and every ending I’ve endured; if it wasn’t for adversity,...
SCOTTIE SOMERS Beauty works perfect miracles. All inner shortcomings in a beauty, instead of causing repugnance, be...
NIKOLAI GOGOL I think my face is different, it's exotic - not like normal beauty. I don't have what you would call...
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EDMUND BURKE Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKE But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; fo...
EDMUND BURKE The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
EDMUND BURKE Ambition can creep as well as soar.
EDMUND BURKE One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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DELTA BURKE There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under ...
EDMUND BURKE I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.
BROOKE BURKE This is just going to be a different year because of the rain. Now it's going to be a matter of keep...
ALANE BURKE We still have nine games left, so this is just the beginning. We're still sitting in second place, s...
ALANE BURKE The whole thing was beautiful to see, just perfect.
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ALANE BURKE She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
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EDMUND BURKE The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is
the greatest of all possible evils; ...
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DELTA BURKE The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system,
are wisely careful never to set up a...
EDMUND BURKE But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a
refinement on the principle of resist...
EDMUND BURKE What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.
EDMUND BURKE The balance of power.
EDMUND BURKE Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
EDMUND BURKE You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and
in the political world, from the re...
EDMUND BURKE I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an
whole people.
EDMUND BURKE There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history
of Roman jurisprudence, whom they c...
EDMUND BURKE The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purp...
EDMUND BURKE If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
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DELTA BURKE Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transit...
DELTA BURKE It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary
ideas of criminal justice to this gr...
EDMUND BURKE Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and
any eminent departure from it, un...
EDMUND BURKE Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that thes...
EDMUND BURKE And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first
scarcity they will turn and bite the h...
EDMUND BURKE All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every
virtue and every prudent act--is f...
EDMUND BURKE Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the
hoofs of a swinish multitude.
EDMUND BURKE No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of
Christian charity.
EDMUND BURKE We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the nece...
EDMUND BURKE I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
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EDMUND BURKE Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, eve...
EDMUND BURKE Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I...
SUZIE BURKE Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
EDMUND BURKE The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equ...
EDMUND BURKE You can never plan the future by the past.
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JAMES BURKE A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a stat...
EDMUND BURKE Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminati...
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EDMUND BURKE By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKE People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be...
EDMUND BURKE Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical ...
EDMUND BURKE Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
EDMUND BURKE There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law...
EDMUND BURKE A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhoo...
EDMUND BURKE Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories...
EDMUND BURKE To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and...
EDMUND BURKE It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but...
EDMUND BURKE But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existi...
EDMUND BURKE Society is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and...
EDMUND BURKE Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the chur...
EDMUND BURKE A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
EDMUND BURKE Fraud and prevarication are servile vices. They sometimes grow out of the necessities, always out of...
EDMUND BURKE The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superio...
EDMUND BURKE The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems...
EDMUND BURKE I did not obey your instructions. No. I conformed to the instructions of truth and Nature, and maint...
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EDMUND BURKE If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the p...
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EDMUND BURKE Education is the cheap defence of nations.
EDMUND BURKE Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
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EDMUND BURKE Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the stri...
EDMUND BURKE Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell ...
EDMUND BURKE I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
EDMUND BURKE We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKE A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKE It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
EDMUND BURKE I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threa...
EDMUND BURKE There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the ...
EDMUND BURKE A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
BILLIE BURKE Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.
BILLIE BURKE Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese
BILLIE BURKE When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice...
EDMUND BURKE Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKE Now, as a law directed against the mass of the nation has not the nature of a reasonable institution...
EDMUND BURKE Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
EDMUND BURKE No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
EDMUND BURKE Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, und...
EDMUND BURKE Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKE An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
EDMUND BURKE Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be...
EDMUND BURKE When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From ...
EDMUND BURKE Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
EDMUND BURKE They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
EDMUND BURKE Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partne...
EDMUND BURKE We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
JAMES BURKE A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKE Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the educ...
EDMUND BURKE The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the w...
JAMES BURKE In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
EDMUND BURKE Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
EDMUND BURKE Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the ...
EDMUND BURKE To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
EDMUND BURKE I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much ...
EDMUND BURKE If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be ...
EDMUND BURKE To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKE Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKE Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests ea...
EDMUND BURKE Good order is the foundation of all great things.
EDMUND BURKE The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
EDMUND BURKE When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in th...
EDMUND BURKE If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
EDMUND BURKE What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE The key to why things change is the key to everything.
JAMES BURKE The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
EDMUND BURKE Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
EDMUND BURKE And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the ha...
EDMUND BURKE In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army wil...
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