Failed Quotes

1604 Failed quotes by 1228 unique authors

Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when… — Paul Ryan
Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if… — Paul Ryan
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. — Jose Saramago
In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test. — Adam Savage
Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst. — Campbell Scott
I don't think I'll get married again. I'm not looking for it. What I can say about my divorce and my failed engagement is that… — Jill Scott
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid. — Amy Sedaris
Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities… — Will Self
The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005. — Jim Sensenbrenner
Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane… — Kevin Smith
I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself. — Eliot Spitzer
The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the… — John Sununu
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism. — David Suzuki
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame… — Margaret Thatcher
But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in… — Emma Thompson
Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the… — Donald Trump
I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The… — Ai Weiwei
I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to… — Lawrence Welk
Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in… — Allen West
Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed… — Rowan Williams
Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got… — Dennis Wilson
As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more… — Tiger Woods
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of… — Carter G. Woodson
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. — Carter G. Woodson

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