Sentences with phrase «flawed human beings like»

When we're adults, we can look back at our parents» divorce, and understand that they're flawed human beings like everyone else.

Not exact matches

This comparison is not as outrageous as it seems: Like monasticism, science is an enterprise with a superhuman aim whose achievement is forever beyond the capacities of the flawed humans who aspire toward it.

But I believe it is of great value, and I do believe depsite its flaws that God inspired the writing, humans screwed it up, like we screw up just about everything.

P.S.. Another great quote from Pastrix we've been discussing on the Facebook page is this one: «Grace isn't about God creating humans as flawed beings and then acting all hurt when we inevitably fail and then stepping in like the hero to grant us grace — like saying «Oh, it's OK, I'll be a good guy and forgive you.»

Yeah, vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity strikes me as uninteresting, but raunchy comedies are compelling when they treat their flawed characters like human beings we can observe and understand.

Jon Negroni: Yeah, vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity strikes me as uninteresting, but raunchy comedies are compelling when they treat their flawed characters like human beings we can observe and understand.

A movie like The Exorcist — as controversial as it is — also shows that, contrary to the mad scientist characters who try to seize power from God, God in fact manages to work His will through very flawed, human servants.

I believe that, like myself, they are blind to some of their own shortcomings and as a fellow flawed human, I should feel more kinship than malevolence.

They are human beings with flaws like all of you.

Some of my misguided colleagues do just that when they say things like, «Computers will inevitably evolve to correct flaws in our posthuman visions, such as the fact that software is endlessly buggy and needs to be fixed by human programmers.»

Books like this are part of a long tradition that winds back to sociobiology, pop ethology and eventually to Genesis — which still owns the copyright on the idea that humans are fundamentally flawed.

It's become part of what it means to be human: point out something about yourself you don't like, a perceived flaw that needs to be fixed.

The fatal flaw of the human immune system, like any well - armed militia, is the ability to cause collateral damage as it performs its genetically programmed function.

I am real, tangible, interesting, human, flawed just like a lot of others.

Just like the original, it has its good share of flaws; but also just like the original, there are moments and characters so human that you can't help but connect with them on a deeply personal level.

But the brilliant, most significant thing about Fruitvale Station is how it expands the news story we thought we knew, presenting Grant not just as a casualty of prejudice but a fully realized human being with hopes, dreams, and flaws just like the rest of us.

Lusciously shot in a hostile Sicilian landscape, this is darkly comic with a cast of infuriatingly selfish and amoral characters.With a counter-intuitive score, tantalizing close - ups and an immaculately clad Tilda Swinton at centre stage, the tangled relationships play out like a voyeuristic travelogue.At times overblown but never boring, there is enough exploration of flawed human behaviour to linger over and discuss long after the credits roll.

Like the most human and discussable movies, this one presents characters with numerous flaws and facets, so that when events transpire, you are able to notice and appreciate different angles.

At times, it feels like he's working at cross-purposes with the movie: Roach wants to paint a saint, and Cranston is trying to show a flawed human being.

Like Blood Simple, Blue Ruin deals in crimes of passion, carried out by human beings who are flawed yet tragically relatable.

«Things like grit and 10,000 hours are mindsets that are very misleading because they are consequences not causes — they are lagging indicators of performance,» said Todd Rose, who is the author of The End of Average, a book that illustrates how averages are flawed in understanding human achievement...

The game a few flaws though but it seems like the developers are set to fix those, promising there won't be any of the stupid, completely out of place boss fights Human Revolution featured.

But to deny the effects of human pollution is like denying that smoking is harmful because of a single study that was inconclusive, or because a single study showing ill effects was shown to be flawed.

The first is the inherent flaws in human memory — our memories are not what we think they are, and they fail us far more often than we know, particularly when we attempt to recall traumatic events like violent crimes.

I also feel like the book is so very child focused that I felt a huge amount of guilt as a parent with human flaws.