Fails Quotes

821 quotes by 701 authors

It is pointless to get your knickers in a twist if a certain person fails to react the way you want. It is best to… — Stuart Wilde
If all else fails, there's always print or web zines. — Rudy Rucker
The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails. — Robert McKee
For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails — Bruce Mau
Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails. — Ziad K. Abdelnour
The best patients are the worst patients. Nudge, nudge, nudge. Don't sit back and accept anything that fails to satisfy you. Speak up, protect your… — Claire Fagin
If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach. — Sidney Sugarman
Weâ€™ve got customers. Weâ€™ve got suppliers. Weâ€™ve got employees. Weâ€™ve got unions. Weâ€™ve got communities. Weâ€™ve got all of these things that go into making… — Gerry Schwartz
If we live in the here and now, each moment is a surprise, every instant a new wonder. But it often fails to work this… — Piero Ferrucci
The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and… — Robert Dale Owen
When we find ourselves unable to reason (as one often does when presented with, say, a problem in algebra) it is because our imagination is… — W. W. Sawyer
Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who… — Ivan Turgenev
Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage licence. Indeed, the evidence shows… — Vaughn Walker
The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not… — Brigid Brophy
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play… — Brigid Brophy
In childhood the daylight always fails too soon -- except when there are going to be fireworks; — Jan Struther
If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to oneâ€™s existence, if one does not use the mind to itâ€™s fullest, then good feelings… — Dan Buettner
A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do… — Louis Auchincloss
Weâ€™re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people havenâ€™t, you need to do things the… — James Dyson
As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at… — Sydney J. Harris

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