Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rita Dove

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

But all, the world's coarse thumb / And finger failed to plumb, / So passed in making up the main account.

I have always voted every time I could get to the polls. I failed in that regard.

I felt like I had failed it, like I let it down.

Jim Crace

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

Paulo Coelho

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Jared Bernstein

I think the fingerprints of a faltering job market are all over this report. We've got more people working, but they're failing to get ahead.

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed.

Aristotle

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Seth Berkley

History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world responded, or rather failed to respond, to the epidemic.

Doug Liman

If anything, the films that succeeded this summer and the films that failed have emboldened me and filmmakers who share my sensibility that we don't want to just churn out the same old thing,

John Montgomery

If anything fails, they fail the whole thing, and it gets pushed back to you.

Warren Miller

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing.

If all else fails we will still have the lakes, the land, the horses and the fish, and there are a lot of fish.

I fail to understand what the real reason is for doing this.

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

Chuck D.

He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam,

If that integration is left to the customer, I think that we have failed the customer.

He has been doing so at regular intervals and has miserably failed every time.

Silvan Shalom

He has failed to give us peace; he has failed to give us security,

He failed to meet his obligation ... to be present on time,

Max Beerbohm

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

The purpose of the inspection program is to make sure that if there are poles that are deteriorating, we go out, identify them and make sure the ones that are tending toward failure are braced or replaced.

We took to the streets because all other methods had failed. All political parties failed us miserably on this issue.

Al Gore

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Charles Kettering

Learn how to fail intelligently.

Charles Babbage

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Billie Jean King

The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

Billie Joe Armstrong

When all else fails...be a rockstar

Keyshawn Johnson

So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.

Arthur Ashe

Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Anything I've ever attempted, I was always willing to fail.