David Maraniss Quotes

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

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

Top players or experienced players make mistakes because we are human beings, we are people.

Human nature is weak.

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

No human being should be a role model. We all have flaws.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.

Aren't all people flawed?

For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

We're all flawed people at the end of the day; I don't know any perfect people.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

It is too bad that the public expects from me, always, perfection which it is impossible for me always to attain. I am not a machine. I am a human being.

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

Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

I'm not a perfect human being.

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.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

We are all flawed people.

I like people that are real people. Real people are broad; they make mistakes.

Everybody is flawed, not just men.