Failed Quotes

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I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter,… — A A Milne
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes… — Jesmyn Ward
One might almost say, to adapt von Clausewitz, that modern warfare is PR by other means. And war-winning strategies mean that modern armies most stop… — David Frum
The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without these… — Mikhail Gorbachev
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure — Thomas A. Edison
Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure! — Thomas A. Edison
Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do. — Sinclair B. Ferguson
There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small,… — Agnes Sligh Turnbull
She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to erase any sins that had… — Philipp Meyer
There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to… — John Templeton
Science has failed our mother Earth. — Serj Tankian
It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters. — George Bernard Shaw
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. — William Faulkner
Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life. — John F. Kennedy
All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed. — John Updike
Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute… — June Jordan
Hakomi is a path taken by those who work to go beyond the half remembered hurts and failed beliefs that linger unexamined in the mind… — Ron Kurtz
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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