Falls Short Quotes
25 quotes by 24 authors
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You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and…
— Hillary Clinton
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If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must…
— John F. Kennedy
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In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look to the left,…
— Russell M. Nelson
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Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
— Lance Secretan
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He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls…
— Francesco Guicciardini
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Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name…
— Roxane Gay
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Proper worship in any age is critically predicated upon adequate and accurate knowledge of the God worshiped. No matter how ceremonially elaborate, emotionally rousing, or…
— Andreas J. Kostenberger
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The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any…
— Salvador Minuchin
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Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
— Ellis Peters
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We have all learned everything we know physically—from walking to running a marathon—by trial and error, so there's no reason to become our own worst…
— Amby Burfoot
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I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure of words I…
— Susan Griffin
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There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without…
— Josef Skvorecky
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As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing and its eons…
— Michael J Cohen
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The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to…
— Bodhidharma
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
— Golda Meir
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Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.
— Dorianne Laux
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Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions:…
— Eugene Ionesco
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One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must…
— Daniel H. Pink
Who Wrote These Falls Short Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 25 Falls Short Quotes as follows: