Failed Quotes

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His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out for… — Julian Barnes
The scene I had just witnessed (a couple making love in the ocean) brought back a lot of memories â€“ not of things I had… — Hunter S. Thompson
He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man… — John Steinbeck
...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an… — Vladimir Nabokov
There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didnâ€™t. I… — Libba Bray
The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve… — Mark Rothko
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory… — John Steinbeck
Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succeeded. But I love my wife. I… — Cameron Crowe
All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.… — William Faulkner
How strange to have failed as a social creatureâ€”even criminals do not fail that wayâ€”they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' â€”Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. — Diane Setterfield
Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a… — Charles M. Schulz
He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret. — Charles Frazier
You have not failed until you quit trying. — Gordon B. Hinckley
The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique… — Wade Davis
Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried. — Og Mandino
The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for… — Jean-Dominique Bauby
Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to… — John Irving

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