Failed Quotes · Page 5

Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor…

— Wendy Davis

I just did not get on at my school. It completely failed to inspire me.

— Chris Toumazou

I think there is a role for non-violent direct action when democratic channels have failed.

— Caroline Lucas

In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.

— James Altucher

The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do.

— Robert Luskin

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to…

— Nick Nolte

I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.

— Richard Dawkins

“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the…

— Neil MacGregor

Once I realised that my job as a model was to emote in front of the camera, I thought, 'Well now, I…

— Isabella Rossellini

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

— Iqbal Quadir

The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American…

— Peter Arnett

Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael…

— Michael Caine

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

— Stonewall Jackson

In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or…

— John Eaton

My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed…

— Jean-Luc Bilodeau

When New Orleans was flooded in August 2005, the rising water cut off Memorial Medical Centre, a community hospital that was holding…

— Peter Singer

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

— M. Night Shyamalan

In 2015, Arvind Kejriwal was not tested. But in 2020, he has been tested and he has failed.

— Manoj Tiwari

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.

— Elie Wiesel

I'm not afraid of falling or failing, because I've failed many times, and I learned from them.

— Max Aaron

Failed weapons tests are necessary components of the weapons development process.

— Will Hurd

It's scary to sign a six-year contract for something that you don't necessarily know about. And yet I did that most every…

— Lizzy Caplan

I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.

— Jack O'Connell

I've failed once or twice real big, independent.

— Fat Joe