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Failing Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The…
- To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because…
- Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne
- The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
- But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot.…
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- Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. — Karen Armstrong
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- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel, that is… — Michele Bachmann
- Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. — Lester Bangs
- High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make… — Joseph Barbera
- We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
- There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. — Lord Acton