For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose. — Laozi Copy Share Image
It's not that I succeed, it's that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents. — Attila the Hun Copy Share Image
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein Copy Share Image
The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do. — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
..Whoever dewlls on beauty tends to become beautiful; there will be a grace and charm to expressing itself through that person which… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
Collaboration is risky. If it fails, if the occupation is wound up prematurely and the bad guys come back to power, you… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I fear that I will do something to bring harm to those I love," Froi said. "So I follow their rules to… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In nearly all cases, if the people complain of the length of our sermons it is because we fail to interest them… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand,… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Ecology is the new theology; big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day scripture, and… — Michael Dowd Copy Share Image
In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand… — Michael Dell Copy Share Image
Eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Among the innumerable Footsteps of Divine Providence to be found in the Works of Nature, there is a very remarkable one to… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image