Failed Quotes

1604 Failed quotes by 1228 unique authors

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled. — William Goldman
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. — Muriel Rukeyser
The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do. — Robert Luskin
I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for… — Henry Cisneros
President Obama is making the tough decisions to get our country going in the right direction, has taken our economy from job losses to 15… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz
The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away. — Alexei Sayle
I have failed to continue to set an example for a secure, loving family unit as an example for our children. That is the reality… — Unknown Author
When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here… — Rene Redzepi
I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the… — Jane Levy
Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed.… — Joan Didion
I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to… — Freeman Dyson
Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the… — William Nicholson
When I started out I was a failed actor. — David Mamet
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened. — M. Night Shyamalan
In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty… — Xi Jinping
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading… — Nicholson Baker
Though President Obama promised during the 2008 campaign to pass the DREAM Act, he never made it a priority and failed to bring Republicans and… — Juan Williams
Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count the… — Mark Skousen
From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic… — Jeb Hensarling
The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such… — Stephane Hessel
The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but failed to propose… — Dick Gephardt
With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I… — Sean Brady
I deeply regret that those with the authority and responsibility to deal appropriately with Brendan Smyth failed to do so, with tragic and painful consequences… — Sean Brady
May God forgive us for the times when we as individuals and as a Church failed to seek out and care for those little ones… — Sean Brady
On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of… — Samantha Power

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