Fails Quotes
821 quotes by 701 authors
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Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink…
— Ray Bradbury
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When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider…
— Rudolf Dreikurs
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and…
— William James
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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair…
— Thucydides
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Ladies and gentlemen, the economic disaster, the tailspin, the destruction of the greatest economic engine in the history of the world, these policies of Barack…
— Rush Limbaugh
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What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.
— Emile M. Cioran
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It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own…
— Samuel Johnson
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Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as…
— Bernard Baruch
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Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the…
— Theodor Reik
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I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight ... Rush Limbaugh -…
— Wanda Sykes
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Prayer succeeds when all else fails
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless…
— Grenville Kleiser
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It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.
— Glenn Reynolds
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Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love…
— Zhuangzi
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Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of…
— Garrison Keillor
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
— Sophocles
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The Board of Inquiry report fails to recognize that the central problem in the Los Angeles Police Department is the culture. The reality is there…
— Erwin Chemerinsky
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Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries. Science fails…
— Serj Tankian
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