We Fail Quotes
230 quotes by 202 authors
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Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.
— Dennis Chavez
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There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters,…
— Sylvia Earle
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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'
— John Ortberg
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We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to…
— A. Theodore Tuttle
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail…
— R. D. Laing
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Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all…
— Jason Calacanis
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If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear…
— Joel Salatin
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Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way, we present ourselves…
— Sidney Jourard
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We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important.
— Martin Fry
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Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas…
— Pierre Trudeau
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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us -…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.
— Tariq Ramadan
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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as…
— Jean Rostand
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We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
— George Saunders
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The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence…
— David Suzuki
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The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives,…
— David Suzuki
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It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that…
— Ellen G. White
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
— Elie Wiesel
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We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for…
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
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