Fails Quotes

821 quotes by 701 authors

A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must… — Mortimer Adler
This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to… — Hermann Hesse
The Christ within who is our hope of glory is not a matter of theological debate or philosophical speculation. He is not a hobby, a… — Brennan Manning
She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me,… — Laurell K. Hamilton
What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds? — Robert Hughes
First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and… — Thomas Merton
Where instinct fails, intellect must venture. — Jim Butcher
Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that… — Michelle Sagara
What's wrong with the world Peter? God, I don't know. Where do you start? People give up. We're defeatists and we stop striving or fighting… — Jenny Valentine
Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the… — Paulo Freire
There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known… — Thomas Pynchon
A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him… — Edgar Allan Poe
When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee,… — Charles M. Schulz
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the… — Barbara Mertz
Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love… — Saint Augustine
When the effort fails, is it worth the cost? — Maria V. Snyder
and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and… — Charles Bukowski
There is one thing you know for sure, one fact that never fails to comfort you: the worst day of your life wasn't in there,… — Sloane Crosley
The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one… — Aristotle

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