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821 quotes by 701 authors

Change does not fail to occur because of insincerity. The heart patient is not insincere about his wish to keep living, even as he reaches… — Robert Kegan
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. — Josh Billings
The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere. — Frank Arthur Swinnerton
The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Everything that fails brings you closer to what works. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he… — Margaret Mead
The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will… — William Gilmore Simms
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman. — Seneca the Younger
What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft? — Juvenal
When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness. — Joseph Brodsky
Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails. — Harold Bloom
When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in. — Susan Sontag
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of… — Jorge Luis Borges
There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise. — Immanuel Kant
Where love fails we espy all faults. — John Ray
Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause. — Phyllis McGinley
The popular masses are like water, and the army is like a fish. How then can it be said that when there is water, a… — Mao Zedong
One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when… — Tom Hodgkinson
What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in… — Frederick Lenz

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