Failed Quotes

1604 quotes by 1228 authors

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or… — Rufus Wainwright
Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it. — Cameron Sinclair
My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never! — Stonewall Jackson
Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed. — Iqbal Quadir
I had failed the psychological profiling of a terrorist. The central committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too single-minded and too opinionated to… — Loretta Napoleoni
Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these… — Moshe Safdie
I was fortunate because my mum shared my love of film with me, so we would go to the movies twice, three times a week,… — Brenton Thwaites
Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence. — Elie Wiesel
Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would have failed of… — Lysander Spooner
Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union. — Vladimir Putin
We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed. — Lech Walesa
I have an enormous sense of having failed in life. — Jonathan Kozol
Environmentalism has failed. — David Suzuki
Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again. — Mohamed ElBaradei
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. — Natasha Trethewey
As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I… — James E. Faust
One of the best ways to stop the failed policies coming out of Congress is to bring in the ideas and the involvement of the… — Peter Roskam
Dave Camp has been very much influenced by, and often guided by, the radicalization of the Republican Party... and too often failed to speak out. — Sander Levin
The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say… — Unknown Author
For too long, the Democratic majority in Washington has failed to see the value in the sound model of working hard and living within your… — Unknown Author

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