Failed Quotes

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Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with… — Barbara Kingsolver
The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. "We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference. — Jim Butcher
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around… — Emma Donoghue
History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed. — Stephenie Meyer
I saw the logic that they used, and the death of a thousand cuts as experimental scientists slowly chipped away at the belief that the… — Deborah Harkness
Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be… — Megan Whalen Turner
You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions. — Michael Marshall Smith
Design cannot rescue failed content. — Edward Tufte
In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. — Aldous Huxley
What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've… — Jodi Picoult
Even as sheâ€™d come to know the real Ralstonâ€”the Ralston who was not cut from heroic clothâ€”Callie had failed to see the truth. And, instead… — Sarah MacLean
She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
For once, his vampire expression failed him. His response was right there on his face, in full view and easily read. He went from surprise… — Keri Arthur
If you haven't failed, you're not trying hard enough. — Jennifer Crusie
Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him. — H. L. Mencken
Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it… — Leo Tolstoy
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye. — Jodi Picoult
The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had. — Cassandra Clare

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