Failed Quotes

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I'll have you know that I am not a failed Third Division footballer. I am a failed Second Division footballer. — Eamon Dunphy
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing. — Ray Bradbury
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try… — Ernest Hemingway
My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing… — Sherry Turkle
Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence… — Sam Abell
It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed… — Efim Geller
White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself — Siegbert Tarrasch
I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quite football. — Tom Arnold
How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms… — Mahatma Gandhi
My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was… — Rahul Dravid
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that… — Harry A. Blackmun
To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have… — Nhat Hanh
The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed… — Tony Blair
If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens, the U.S. model… — Edward S. Herman
The lack of monetary discipline has become a hallmark of unfettered globalization. Central banks have failed to provide a stable underpinning to world financial markets… — Stephen S. Roach
In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are… — Og Mandino
Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing… — Shelby Steele
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun… — Alex Kozinski
We tried our best to buy Dhoni during IPL 1 but unfortunately failed to do so. — Vijay Mallya
There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain… — Lorenzo Snow

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