With engineering, I view this year's failure as next…

“Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve.”

— John Williams

“I don’t think anyone who tries something they love is a failure. I think it’s the people who don’t try who are failures.”

— Kim Culbertson

If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Every single year is another opportunity to show something different. That's my approach.

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

“New year is another opportunity of seeing life with little more caring, compassion, maturity and beauty.”

— Amit Ray

“Adversity Isn’t to Be Avoided”

— Miles Anthony Smith

I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think…

— Chuck Noll

Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama…

— Anonymous

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

— Khaled Hosseini

“war is not so to be avoided, but is only deferred to your disadvantage”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.

— William Wycherley

Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army,…

— George Washington

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element,…

— Greta Scacchi