Failed Quotes

1604 Failed quotes by 1228 unique authors

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit… — Anne Graham Lotz
Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet… — Neal Stephenson
To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize… — Robert Harris
I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others… — Nicole Krauss
His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out for… — Julian Barnes
The scene I had just witnessed (a couple making love in the ocean) brought back a lot of memories – not of things I had… — Hunter S. Thompson
He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man… — John Steinbeck
...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an… — Vladimir Nabokov
There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I… — Libba Bray
The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve… — Mark Rothko
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory… — John Steinbeck
Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succeeded. But I love my wife. I… — Cameron Crowe
All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.… — William Faulkner
How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. — Diane Setterfield
Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a… — Charles M. Schulz
He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret. — Charles Frazier
You have not failed until you quit trying. — Gordon B. Hinckley
The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique… — Wade Davis
Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried. — Og Mandino
The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for… — Jean-Dominique Bauby
Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to… — John Irving

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