Failed Quotes

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I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting on the feeble… — Earl Doherty
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be… — David Hume
If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner... A winner is somebody who gave his best effort, who… — Walter Payton
The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried. — Bud Wilkinson
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses… — Alex Kozinski
My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed.....It is not even possible to make a… — Nils Heribert-Nilsson
They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime — Connie Mulder
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art. — Benjamin Disraeli
We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the mandatory renewable energies… — Kevin Rudd
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an… — Frederick Soddy
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. — Saint Augustine
Don't sugar-coat results. Don't make yourself look good when your strategy fails. Don't make others look good if their strategy failed. — Theodor Billroth
They are going to leave [Gaza], not because this is a gift from Israel. This is because they failed to confront our people, so don't… — Zuheir Mohsen
When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to… — Albert Einstein
It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed. — Jack Ma
I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition. — Ethan Canin
My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at… — Nicholas Delbanco
True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right. — Walter Inglis Anderson
General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail… — John Brown Gordon
World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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