Fails Quotes
821 quotes by 701 authors
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Imagine the consequences if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act. Saddam will be emboldened, believing the international community has lost its will.…
— Sandy Berger
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All you need to know is this. You can never go wrong by voting for a bill that fails, or against a bill that passes.
— Bob Dole
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I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results…
— J. William Fulbright
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I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary.…
— Alberto Giacometti
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... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of…
— Iris Murdoch
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It never fails - you get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp
— Robin Williams
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If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art,…
— Allan Nevins
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Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning…
— John Kessel
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Lincoln's reference to government of the people, by the people, for the people is a generally satisfactory definition of democracy. I say generally because when…
— George Aiken
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The proverb answers where the sermon fails.
— William Gilmore Simms
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It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.
— Condoleezza Rice
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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling.…
— Margaret Mead
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Ray Garton never fails to go for the throat!
— Richard Laymon
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Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being…
— Anuj
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No one fails alone and no one succeeds alone.
— Eric Thomas
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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.
— Herman Cain
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Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of…
— Aldous Huxley
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