Fails Quotes

821 quotes by 701 authors

When all else fails, give up and go to the library. — Stephen King
Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards. — Chris Guillebeau
Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole. — Anne Lamott
Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me. — Ozzy Osbourne
Or at school you might have been prodded to come â€œout of your shellâ€â€”that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry… — Susan Cain
You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only… — Timothy Keller
I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle… — George Orwell
I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have… — Anna Deavere Smith
A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lordâ€™s plan to give us challenges. — Nicholas Sparks
Nothing fails like successâ€”because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable… — Alan Watts
A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly. — Thomas Merton
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom,… — Anthony Burgess
The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails.… — Don DeLillo
When all else fails, dream bigger. — Ellen Hopkins
Sometimes you look at me and it's like all the bullshit gets stripped off and I'm left with what's underneath and I kind of like… — Melina Marchetta
That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propagandaâ€™s task to… — Joseph Goebbels
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could… — Theodore Roosevelt
The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no… — Ilona Andrews
In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress… — Woody Allen

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