Fail Quotes

3161 quotes by 2081 authors

a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just… — Shulamith Firestone
The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf… — Joyce Carol Oates
I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip.… — Natsuki Takaya
But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab… — Ian Fleming
Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others. — Don DeLillo
How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one… — Hermann Hesse
I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act. — Terry Goodkind
If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has… — Carl von Clausewitz
No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail. — Alfred Lansing
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion — Marcel Proust
Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability… — Malcolm Gladwell
No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being -- because ideological orientation itself is the… — Rajneesh
In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who… — John Stuart Mill
Cabel smiles and hangs up. "Guess what." What," Janie says. We can go out on our first date." Woo hoo!" And guess what else- You're… — Lisa McMann
if you donâ€™t try at anything, you canâ€™t failâ€¦ it takes back bone to lead the life you want — Richard Yates
Here's the progression. Feminism won; you can have it all; of course you want children; mothers are better at raising children than fathers; of course… — Susan J. Douglas
Apologies are not pass/fail. — Randy Pausch
A Gallagher Girl's real grades donâ€™t come in pass or failâ€”they're measured in life or death. — Ally Carter
It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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