Failed Quotes

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Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will… — Mark Twain
I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to supply my need when first… — William Carey
In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That… — Charles Spurgeon
The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been… — George Monbiot
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago… — Leonard Bloomfield
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love,… — Camille Paglia
Loneliness is failed solitude. — Sherry Turkle
"The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests,… — Jonathon Porritt
I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework — Gordon Clark
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped… — John C. Maxwell
More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors. — Ben Gibbard
Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully. — Albert Einstein
Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information. — Albert Einstein
School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to… — Albert Einstein
My love for the child asleep in the crib, the child's need for me, for my vigilance, had made my life valuable in a way… — Alice McDermott
Today it is not a matter of â€˜conservingâ€™ the present or returning to a recent past that has failed, but rather of regaining possession of… — Guillaume Faye
Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die. — Nic Pizzolatto
There's no such thing as turning back the hands of time, and it makes me crazy that we live in a society where that's sold… — Cameron Diaz
I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends… — Eminem
If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine.… — Richard Dawkins

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