Fail Quotes

3161 quotes by 2081 authors

may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if… — E E Cummings
Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church. If you do… — Meister Eckhart
Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when… — Robert Kennedy
Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting… — Jon Stewart
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore… — Laurence Sterne
You think that you are an iconoclast, but youâ€™re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you… — Michael Ondaatje
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? — George Carlin
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being… — Marcel Proust
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer… — Mahatma Gandhi
Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be… — Jacques Derrida
The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Fail to plan, plan to fail. — Hillary Clinton
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the… — Louisa May Alcott
Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It seems to me that people who donâ€™t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disabilityâ€”there is something different about the… — John Irving
I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop… — Roland Barthes
Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't — Dan Savage
An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is… — Alejandra Pizarnik
Nothing is a mistake. Thereâ€™s no win and no fail. Thereâ€™s only make. — Corita Kent

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