Failed Quotes

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One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of the… — L. E. J. Brouwer
I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed… — Anne Shirley
It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There… — Dalai Lama
I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold… — Edward Burtynsky
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play… — Brigid Brophy
After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that… — Lindsey Buckingham
Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was… — Persis Khambatta
I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this… — Luke Rhinehart
If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard.... — Shirley Hufstedler
I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat… — Victoria Abril
The death penalty experiment has failed. — Harry A. Blackmun
The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one… — Merle Shain
And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its… — George Takei
Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something and it doesn't work and it takes confidence to say we haven't… — Clayton Christensen
The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality… — Kate Braverman
One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life. — Martha Stout
Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be… — John Desmond Bernal
Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, sit down with myself and explain that things were going to be okay, that everybody loses… — Donald Miller
I certainly think the free-market has failed. — Hillary Clinton
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.… — Ransom Riggs

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