Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wycliffe

Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

Diana Nyad

I don't want to be the crazy woman who does it for years and years and years, and tries and fails and tries and fails and tries and fails, but I can swim from Cuba to Florida, and I will swim from Cuba to Florida.

David Antin

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

When a number fails to identify a football player try the name on the back of his uniform.

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

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.

We take it very seriously when someone fails validation and then responds by identifying where they received counterfeit or infringing products.

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

Heinrich Heine

Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Anne Beatts

There was this real fear in doing 'Square Pegs' after getting such a fast ride to glory on 'Saturday Night Live'. I was afraid that the word would be 'peaks early, fails to live up to promise.'

Texas law requires that the water plans protect the state's agricultural, natural and water resources. This plan fails on every count.

I've seen him in tons of parks and he does the same thing every time, but never fails to make me laugh. He's a versatile funny man.

John King

We're very good at telling what happens and showing people while it happens... But sometimes television fails to take the time to say 'Why did it happen? What does it mean?' - To step back a little bit.

C. S. Lewis

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately.

Michael Ignatieff

Not even a superpower can hold onto its economic sovereignty if it fails to get its fiscal house in order, and no one needs a well-regulated international economic order more than the United States.

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

Lloyd Jones

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.