Failed Quotes

1604 Failed quotes by 1228 unique authors

pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer,… — Haruki Murakami
It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code… — Orson Scott Card
All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like… — Douglas Coupland
we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we… — Joan Didion
My life failed on the very day I was born. — Robert Bly
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls. — Randy Pausch
Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was… — Donna Tartt
The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from… — Robert M. Pirsig
What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And [he] thought… — Louise Penny
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I tried to picture her in a class, any class, anywhere on campus, and failed miserably. I pictured her frolicking in a forest glade around… — Maggie Stiefvater
Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of… — Zadie Smith
A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself. — Will Cuppy
Louis-Cesare’s anger suddenly filled the small room like water, and in a heartbeat his eyes went from silver tinged to as solid as two antique… — Karen Chance
How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter,… — Kevin Brockmeier
I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good… — Laurie Halse Anderson
I failed so therefore I succeed. — Michael Jordan
A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent… — Timothy Keller
We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities… — Laurie Halse Anderson
The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and… — Brennan Manning
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. — Charles Spurgeon
One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration. — Lewis Carroll
Svengal lay groaning on the turf. His thighs were sheer agony. His buttocks ached. His calf muscles were on fire. Now, afterhe had tumbled off… — John Flanagan
Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in… — Ann Brashares
I don't know what your damage is, but in case you've failed to notice,we're in a bit of trouble here. Can you focus on something… — Alexandra Ivy

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