Failed Quotes

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Sometimes love worked out, but more often it failed — M.J. Rose
Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy… — Newt Gingrich
Geffrey Davis interrogates masculinity- as brother, son, father, lover-to examine the sources of love's enduring and failed aspects ... I admire Davis' emotional vocabulary, his… — Robin Becker
We did everything we could to win this game on a tricky pitch. We created a lot of opportunities but between the posts and Bonano,… — Frank Rijkaard
Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works. — Peter Shumlin
You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning… — Gichin Funakoshi
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid. — Nadine Gordimer
The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and… — John Kenneth Galbraith
We carry in our worlds that flourish, our worlds that have failed. — Christopher Okigbo
I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if… — Edward Abbey
If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult . . . I apologize. — Edward Abbey
Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried. — Edward Abbey
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if… — Edward Abbey
Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction. — Jane Austen
On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that… — Katrina vanden Heuvel
No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through… — George Orwell
What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was… — Arthur C. Clarke
Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to… — John Mica

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