Failed Quotes
1604 quotes by 1228 authors
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In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.
— Jack Schwartz
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I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there…
— John Barton
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and…
— Uwe Boll
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We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and…
— Joschka Fischer
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To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a…
— Vaclav Klaus
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We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has…
— Sherrod Brown
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Of course you know this difference as well as I do, only you failed to draw from it the conclusions for the tactics in Western…
— Herman Gorter
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They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they…
— Miroslav Vitous
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I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.
— Michael Stipe
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If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were…
— William Adams
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What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these…
— Robert Scheer
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During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed…
— Ike Skelton
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Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our…
— Earl Blumenauer
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Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.
— Gijs de Vries
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In fact, if you look upon the situation today, there is great division in the world and we have failed to capitalize on that unity…
— Chris Van Hollen
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Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.
— William Goldman
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Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
— Muriel Rukeyser
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The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do.
— Robert Luskin
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I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for…
— Henry Cisneros
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President Obama is making the tough decisions to get our country going in the right direction, has taken our economy from job losses to 15…
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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