Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Jefferson

Our offense failed us. A lot of the decision-making.

People involved in 'Mamma Mia!' think Wynn is trashing their show because he tried -- and failed -- to get it himself.

State policy and state law failed the victims of the Kaufman House.

Ron Rivera

That was a tough thing, too. They went after the young guy. It was a tough play and he failed as well.

Harry Reid

I think it's right and proper for the Moderator to speak out on matters of great public interest. Too often in the recent past Moderators have failed to do so.

William White

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

Kenny Guinn

I wish that we could have done this four years ago, so if it failed I would be totally responsible for it,

John Montgomery

I don't feel like the Hanover voters rejected us last time. I feel like I failed in communicating with them.

He could do worse than to go to Delmas to see how his own government has failed its own people in its own backyard.

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.

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,

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,

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

One thing this team has never failed to show is resolve.

Some moments we played well but overall we struggled with our opponents because we failed to raise the pace.

Walter Kirn

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

Shane failed to fulfill the prescribed rehabilitation program scheduled by NASCAR. As a result, Shane has forfeited his opportunity to compete.

Since it failed last year, the possibility of this kind of large-scale release is low.

We're here because unfortunately judges have failed us in some of these cases,

Many of my traditional supporters, especially in the business, women's rights and gun-owner communities, have failed to step forward to help me as they have in the past. Many have simply written-off the governor's race and ceded it to the incumbent.

Henry Cisneros

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city,

Hugh Miller

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.

Carly Fiorina

Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you thought would be resolved - the political class has failed you.

Matthew LeCroy

You look for a pitch to hit in the outfield and get the run in. I failed to do it, ... That was our chance.

Stonewall Jackson

My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!