Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

Hannah Simone

We all have our strengths and our failings.

Graeme Simsion

Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.

Gwen Stefani

Every day I fail at something.

Neil Gaiman

You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

John Thorn

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

John Templeton

If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.

Martin Luther

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

Seth Godin

Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.

Seth Godin

There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

Tom Cruise

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

Megan Gallagher

And generally the shows I'm in fail really big.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.

Mike Murdock

What you fail to destroy will eventually destroy you.

Mark Lawrenson

If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.

Mary Kay Ash

You never really fail until you stop wanting.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

And if we fail? (Delphine) It’ll suck to be human. (Madoc)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You will fail and I’ll dance on your grave. (Apollymi)

Katie Leung

I'm single and looking and failing miserably. I'm keeping my options open.

Nick Hornby

So now what? What happens when words fail us?

Judith Butler

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

John Boorman

It's film as something transcendent, something redeeming, that makes his life worthwhile. It's a tremendously life-affirming film. And yet it's about not making a film. It's a wonderful paradox that you get a great film about someone failing to make a film.

Kate Atkinson

It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.

This kind of grade -- unfulfilled, insufficient, minimal progress -- those grades are failing grades ... That is an unacceptable response.

This is emblematic of just how screwed up the FCC is and how they aren't responding to what's happening the market. They are just failing on their responsibilities.

Carolyn Maloney

The FDA's mission is to improve our health, not play to a political base, and right now it's failing at its mission,

I'm disappointed because we put ourselves under a lot of pressure giving away too many penalties in the first half and failing to take our opportunities in the second.

James Russell Lowell

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

Johnny Damon

My biggest adjustment has been learning not to be afraid to fail.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.

James Cook

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

Henry Rollins

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

Mahatma Gandhi

Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.