Failed Quotes
1604 Failed quotes by 1228 unique authors
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No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.
— Peter Drucker
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Most of our businesses do succeed, but if something completely fails, then as long as we bow out gracefully and pay off all our debts,…
— Richard Branson
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Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their…
— Ruben Hinojosa
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I think it's a typical hidden agenda of the Liberal party... They had the courts do it for them, they put the judges in they…
— Stephen Harper
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After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is…
— Stephen Harper
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I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of…
— Jeff Bezos
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand…
— Rita Dove
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The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have…
— Anthony Burgess
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I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of…
— Matt Gonzalez
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We need only take our heads out of the sand to see clearly that interventionism not only has failed to provide the promised something-for-nothing, but…
— Leonard Read
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I would be lying, however, if I claimed that I could always formulate worthwhile hypotheses on the basis of my theoretical framework. Sometimes there were…
— George Soros
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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
— Galen Rowell
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Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have…
— Paul Valery
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The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the…
— Ed Royce
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The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were often keen to…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced…
— Dave Winfield
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But I have to say, it was fun doing this Love Letter album because, hey, man, love has never failed. It has won every battle.…
— R. Kelly
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This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ...…
— Unknown Author
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American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
— Diane Ravitch
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