Failed Quotes

1604 quotes by 1228 authors

To plot is to live. [â€¦] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise… — Don DeLillo
Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The… — Annie Dillard
In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much… — Desmond Tutu
Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even… — R A Salvatore
Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw them. Thank you for being someone I… — Richard Matheson
He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed — Margaret Atwood
If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women who've led me… — Jamie Lee Curtis
I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned… — Emily Dickinson
You could ask yourself, 'How did God Bless me today?' If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings.… — Henry B. Eyring
Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve. — Michael Chabon
After she left everything fell apart. No Jew was safe. There were rumors of unfathomable things, and because we couldn't fathom them we failed to… — Nicole Krauss
It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making… — R.D. Blackmore
I had failed to make a gift of myself to God. — Karen Armstrong
And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps… — Jenny Downham
Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one… — Norah Vincent
We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore… — Thomas Jefferson
The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our… — James Redfield
Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work. — Corrie Ten Boom
Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,… — Virginia Woolf
The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its… — Virginia Woolf

Who Wrote These Failed Quotes

1,228 authors contributed a total of 1,604 Failed Quotes, led by these top contributors: