Failed Quotes

1604 quotes by 1228 authors

Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant. — Nellie Bly
My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting… — Bill Walton
And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
We have perfected our weapons but failed to perfect the men who use them. — Billy Graham
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to… — Desmond Morris
I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under… — Gustave Flaubert
I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage. — Joan Didion
In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed… — Jean Genet
I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler. — Bob Seger
I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing… — Carl Reiner
I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each… — Geoffrey Fisher
The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn… — Guy Finley
By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you… — Jonathan Raban
If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me. — Jack Dee
I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed. — John Otway
The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists… — James Buchan
She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry. — Thomas Dolby
I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it… — Derek Luke
I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class… — Jim Parsons
Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty,… — Reince Priebus

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