“I thought about my brother. I hated him. Hated him like a child hates a fallen hero. I hated him for his… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
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Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Curbing negativity is also about owning up to one’s responsibilities, and not passing the buck. It is a usual tendency to look… — Tapan Singhel Copy Share Image
Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I fear that, as conditions worsen, many will react to the failures of too much government by calling for even more government.… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“The idea of losing him made her realize how much she wanted him, because yes. Love. Charlie and Wren. Their souls colliding.… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Maybe being good isn't about getting rid of anything. Maybe being good has to do with living in the mess in the… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“First, not a word more from you about the past. There was an error in your calculations. I know what that is.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A woman's greatest and most perduring failure will be her failure to love. It is certainly not without significance that so many… — Mother Mary Francis P.C.C Copy Share Image
You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The mistake we make is that when we're feeling another person is not treating us in the way that makes us feel… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“I used to think, that when my old inner demons started creeping back into my life, that it was a sign of… — Kate Wicker Copy Share Image
The imperialists and domestic reactionaries will certainly not take their defeat Lying down and they will struggle to the last ditch. After… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged In another war against a much less… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked. Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more… — Brady Udall Copy Share Image
“The strange thing about Karl Hoffmann’s story is that it is a story of the defeat of the tremendous Nazi force, inside… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
On indies it's hard to do, but in rehearsals, you make mistakes in rehearsal. It's really hard rehearsing a play or what… — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
After all the pain, I smoke to decrease the stress on my brain, never ashamed, because I'm true to me, looking into… — Cody Joseph Copy Share Image
“....don't be afraid or discouraged to get old, it's a symbol of living don't be afraid or discouraged to express how you… — levi paul taylor Copy Share Image
I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
It is very important to learn from our mistakes & never to fall into the same pit again. We are also taught… — Nayely Saldana Copy Share Image
Doing three movies with Mike Myers certainly loosened me up. He told me that there's a switch in your brain that censors… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“The failure of reorientation therapy is why the "ex-gay" ministry Exodus International shut down in 2013. It places gay Christians who adhere… — Matthew Vines Copy Share Image
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Living consciously reflects the conviction that sight is preferable to blindness; that respecting the facts of reality is more satisfying than denying… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
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The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image