Sentences with phrase «human failings»

It is a common human failing, I'm sorry to say.

I think of it more as a funny story about my own human failings, than anything particularly profound.

Why do you find it necessary to attribute human failings to some devil?

Humans fail at the one command given — don't eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil 3.

When humans fail cats, it's the cat who ends up suffering.

They're all people, subject to the same human failings.

This, of course, is a very human failing: Lots of people believe that the problems they work on are more important than others.

Thinking like rats: why humans fail to act on climate change.

Always past tense - well it is a common human failing that we often do not recognise something good until its gone.

By plumbing the depths of human failings in a literal - minded fashion, one after the other (obsession, then greed, and finally guilt), Anderson ignores the possibility that genre is sharpest when wielded as metaphor for the same.

It's all very reminiscent of a religious community, «where the belief set overrides personal disappointments and where the «church», a complex organisational structure necessarily overseen by people with human failings, is inevitably weak compared with the belief that binds them together».

He was realistic enough to see that any such statement is absurd on the face of it and is denied by the way humans fail in loving and hence are in desperate need of the assurance that love is central in things.

It is a role for robots, really, with no time for human failings like fatigue and inattention.

Human beings and human failings led to Christianity.

Not content to simply paint one of the two as flawed and the other as resourceful and ultimately vindicated, he uses a series of misunderstandings to illustrate human failing on a much more profound and universal level.

The point is that he finds a way to make us admire, despise, pity, and ultimately love the irascible egomaniac, even as Aaron Sorkin's script practically begs us to worship him despite human failings because of his genius.

This visual by the World Bank sets the scene by breaking down the global effects of climate change if humans fail to take action: rising global sea levels, declining drinking water, and increasing global temperatures.

We seem to have a glimpse of a group of men striving to become a real community, and blundering through natural human failings.

«Nothing genuinely human fails to raise an echo in the hearts [of members of the Church],... [which] community realises that it is truly linked with mankind and its history by the deepest of bonds... this Council can provide no more eloquent proof of its solidarity with, as well as its respect and love for, the entire human family with which it is bound up than by engaging with it in conversation about these various problems.»

Unfortunately, since we are all humans, we are subject to human failings so we must always be watchful.

Finally, the credibility of science itself has been shown — once again, and as if we needed a reminder — to be subject to such ordinary human failings as ego defense, the willingness to bend the truth rather than admit error, and the temptation to disparage and insult one's opponents.

Greed has been and still is a huge human failing, and as such is just one of many causes of all societal problems, including but not limited to this recession.

kindof how when your a child you can't fly, but you try to imagine what it is like for the birds; however regardless of how much you attempt to imagine flight you can't understand it as a bird because you can't fly... even as an adult humans fail to truly understand what it is like to fly like a bird because we can't fly, so how can «god» understand death and create a creature that does die if he can't die?

It is a general human failing to overestimate the import of our own actions when things go well for us.

You want to convey that you can accept human failings or mistakes, but still feel confident in yourself.»

But in the best way, this is a tough movie to shake, and while it believes in the kindness of strangers, «Lean on Pete» never forgets every other human failing, impulse and circumstance.

Of course, that had been a long time ago, and after seven long years of dealing with misery, tragedy, and (more often) petty Human failings, she'd finally burned out enough to seriously consider quitting.

It reveals, once again, that all humans, including those who happened to be trained in some field of science, are human; that is they are all political and economic animals prone to groupthink, with all the potential human failings, varying with the individual.

The salty proposal is more of a last - ditch effort that could be used to offset climate change, in case humans fail to significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions, such as those of carbon dioxide, that are contributing to Earth's rising temperatures, Science magazine reported.

Selective memory is a universal human failing.

«Crime writing of the highest order: powerful, relevant and all too full of human failings.»

The female variant in particular immediately won hearts thanks to Jennifer Hale's fantastic voice acting and instant control of any military situation, kept relatable and grounded with a dry sense of humour and human failings like romantic inexperience and exquisitely terrible dancing.

In the meantime, remember today that our soldiers, with all their own human failings and the moral ambiguities of all wars taken as given, were nonetheless not fooled into spilling blood for «oil» or «gold.»

We share the common human failing of passing judgments on other people — judgments in which our own pride and defensiveness take the place of understanding.

He added: «Unfortunately, on this occasion, it was down to human failing on the part of the member of staff involved.

Never mind that Uber's accident last weekend in Tempe, Ariz., was the result of a human failing to yield and smacking into the autonomous Volvo.

Many of these theories would seem to excuse, or at least apologise for, human failings.

ft is fraught more with frustration, dissipation, pride, and pretension, and the anxiety which must inevitably ensue from these human failings demanding resolution in a doctrine of redemption.

Instead, the film would be about a clown who comes riding into town on a donkey; he's with a rather motley circus; he experiences the human failings of the circus people; he encounters Magnus, who wants to dominate and control; he substitutes himself for a poor human - puppet and is killed by Magnus.

David penned several Psalms which focused on his sin, his remorse, his weakness, and the empty frustration of his own (and others») human failings.

though weak in it's own share of human failings, it is fortunately not an institution that is entirely human, it could not have survived for so long as such, rather it is graced.