Quotes of: Failing Keyword

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

She

In March 1853 she was afflicted with a pain in the chest; her tongue seemed to be covered with a film; leeches failed to make her breathing any easier.

A Simple Heart

Ambition can form an impenetrable barrier for those who fail to acknowledge what they already are.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

When things run out of control it is because we failed to control how reality plays out. How you manage and control your reality will come to determine your life.

The Solution

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Naive people always trying to blame others for their constant heartbreak & failed relationships instead of looking in the mirror & re-evaluating themselves. It's YOU that needs to change.

In My Opinion

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).

Mortality

A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

Obedience to Authority

So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

Looking for Alaska

Does it hurt?” He bent his head and lightly kissed her forehead. “Only when I laugh.” “I’ll try not to be funny.” “Epic fail, beautiful.

Last Breath

It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

best solutions will not fall into our lap if we fail to grab the best available solutions and improve upon them continuously.

Let's Transform India - First Things First

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

The Last Lecture

I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite. I am permanent. I am unbreakable.

The Love Mindset

While I am so afraid to fail so I won't even try, Well how can I say I'm alive.

Life for Rent

It's okay to fail. It does not make you forever a failure. In fact, there are no failures really. Only human beings doing the best they can.

The Little Silkworm

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

Love Is a Mix Tape

Most of the girls I've met since moving here have failed to ignite any modicum of enduring interest. Of course, I've dated; I'm seventeen years old and as horny as the next guy.

Lovestruck