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Quotes About Fail

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.
~ Jerry Saltz
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
People need to have 'the dignity of risk' and 'the right to fail'.
~ Patricia Deegan
We, as souls, are given lifetimes filled with opportunities to learn and grow. We stumble and fail and try again, but we learn each time. And then with love as our guidepost, we finally get it right.
~ James Van Praagh
love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad and moonly and less it shall unbe than all the sea which only is deeper than the sea love is less always than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky
~ e. e. cummings
love is more than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail from "love is more than forget
~ E.E. Cummings
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
~ Albert J. Nock
Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.
~ James Surowiecki
I don't put any pressure on myself in terms of what people or fans do or don't want. It really just doesn't occur to me. I honestly just want to make the films I want to see as a fan. The film will survive or fail in my mind by how much I like it. Having said that, everyone wants their films to do well and to be well-received.
~ Neill Blomkamp
The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail.
~ Thomas Frank
Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.
~ Richard Rohr
Zia turned toward us, her expression grim. "I will show you to your quarters. In the morning, your testing begins. We will see what magic you know, and how you know it." I wasn't sure what she meant by that, but I exchanged an uneasy look with Sadie. "Sounds fun," Sadie ventured. "And it we fail this test?" Zia regarded her coldly. "This is not the sort of test you fail, Sadie Kane. You pass or you die.
~ Rick Riordan
There are no chances." He favored her again with that unreadable look. "You succeed or you fail. Battles are not won by men who refuse to take risks." It
~ Kate Elliott
You know, if I look at the wound on an angle, it reminds me of a stripper I know." I amended my "complete asshole" assessment to include the words "from hell." "So this is where we part ways, slowly drift apart, and eventually fail to keep in touch altogether, right?" I asked.
~ Jeff Strand
We must learn the lessons of the 2008 crash: no company should be able to become too big to fail.
~ Barry Gardiner
As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.
~ Noam Chomsky
We've talked to the Europeans about it. It's clear if those negotiations fail, then we are agreed with the Europeans that the next step is to take the matter to the U.N. Security Council.
~ Stephen Hadley
Men without ambition are boring) And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And why they continue to fail.
~ Richelle Mead
They're true," I replied defiantly. "I came here to kill you. And if I can't do that, then I'd rather die." "You failed, you know. On the street." "Yeah. I kind of figured that out when I woke up here.
~ Richelle Mead
they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
To own one's own shadow is to reach a holy place—an inner center—not attainable in any other way. To fail this is to fail one's own sainthood and to miss the purpose of life.
~ Robert A. Johnson
I fail to share your optimism about our intrinsic worth to a master vampire," I said
~ Kim Harrison
When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them
~ Frank Herbert
Dare to believe. Dare to live. Dare to act. Dare to fact. Dare to sail. Dare to fail. Dare to give. Dare to forgive.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.