Quotes About Failed

In my short time in Washington I've seen firsthand how the system is broken. A small group of failed voices who think they know everything and understand everyone want to tell everybody else how to live and what to do and how to think. But you aren't going to let other people tell you what you believe, especially when you know that you're right.

And what does a person with such a romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics? He asked this as if, having had the good fortune to catch such a rare bird as myself, he was anxious to extract my opinion while I was still captive in his office. 'If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective,' I said, 'I think romantics are frequently the best classicists.' He laughed. 'The great romantics are often failed classicists. But that's beside the point, isn't it?

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone—adults promising us their own failed futures.

Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone —adults promising us their own failed future.

there can be no reason to believe these officers of an established news organization serving newspapers all over the country failed to realize their responsibilities at a moment of supreme significance to the people of this country.

She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

While she was willing to give him a chance to repair her, she remained secretly unconvinced that she was worth the trouble. When the nurses said she was lucky to be alive, she thought the opposite was true. She felt unlucky to have failed.

The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.

The first rule of modern commercial media is you're allowed to screw up, in concert. So there was no reckoning for the WMD mess. The chief offenders kept perches or failed up.

Dystopia is just someone's failed attempt at utopia. In a dystopian novel or movie, society is the bad guy, or at least one of the antagonists. In real life Nazi society was as much to blame as Hitler. There is usually a "shift" that  initiates this change, this shift can be anything from hunger ("Soylent Green"), to a tornado (the "Wizard of Oz") to a deadly virus (my story, "Apocalypse Conspiracy).

While the big government culture-identity program that I've called the Next Great Nation movement of 1967–1976 was abandoned, it doesn't mean that it failed completely.

The species that prosper on agar represent less than 0.5 percent of the life in the soil; most microbes have thirsts that we have failed to slake in the laboratory.