Fails Quotes
821 quotes by 701 authors
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If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.
— Muqtada al Sadr
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Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a…
— John Walford
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If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an…
— Vance Havner
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With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.
— Anthony Mackie
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Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable,…
— Paul Davies
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The modern man, finding that Humanism and Sex both fail to satisfy, seeks his happiness in Science ... But Science fails too, for it is…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
— F L Lucas
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I have not the courage to search through books for beautiful prayers. . . Unable either to say them all or choose between them, I…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
— Margaret Drabble
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Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays…
— Greil Marcus
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No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.
— Jim Bunning
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When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.
— Rob Brydon
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I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then…
— Ben Bernanke
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Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out…
— Brooke Burke
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Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
— Ahmed Chalabi
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The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law of…
— Eric Cantor
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I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're…
— Kara DioGuardi
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain…
— Barbara Deming
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
— Maggie Gallagher
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So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even…
— Corra May Harris
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