Fallible Quotations

I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

I think it's really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it's good to see people in the media representing all of those things.

I don't have time to beat myself up over my fallible nature. Instead I use my energy to learn from my past and let it inform my future. It's time to own all of our glory, mistakes, mess and light and be gentle to ourselves. Let's be kind to our spirits and celebrate the truth of our hearts.

Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother and sister in particular.

I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.

You know, Andrew is not Superman. He's fallible just like everybody else. He's not going to go out and just mow everybody down. If you had the opinion that it's Andrew Miller against Duke and it's just going to be like a knife through hot butter, you're not paying attention. Baseball is too hard to play, and you've got to give Duke more credit than that.

Try to remember that decisions are made by individual, fallible personalities, not gods. It's hard. I know.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.