Quotes of: Failing Keyword

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses create jobs. You know that old theory, 'trickle-down economics.' That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.

Hillary Clinton

I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with.

Mike Krzyzewski

Liz: You hang out with my friends? Sorry, a failed actress and a twat? Shaun: Well, that's a bit harsh. Liz: Your words! Shaun: I did NOT call Dianne a failed actress!

Shaun of the Dead

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

Jean Cocteau

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're goin...

Jeff Bezos

[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

I believe that hospitality is central to the heart and ministry of Jesus and that to the extent we fail to extend this hospitality to gay people, the church will fail to walk in the way of Jesus.

Generous Spaciousness: Responding to Gay Christians in the Church

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

God has disclosed himself in descriptive terms that give us enough information to be able to know who he is, and he has hidden enough of himself for us to learn the balance between faith and reason.

Has Christianity Failed You?

Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.

The Same Sweet Girls' Guide to Life: Advice from a Failed Southern Belle

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.

The Same Sweet Girls' Guide to Life: Advice from a Failed Southern Belle

Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.

Love in the Ruins

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.

The Split Mind: Schizophrenia from an Insider's Point of View

[John] Kobak explained, 'The way you learn anything is that something fails, and you figure out how not to have it fail again.

Pursuit of Power: NASA's Propulsion Systems Laboratory No. 1 and 2

The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.

Rebecca

We don't really have a song or anything." I pondered that for a second. "I guess we've failed as a couple in that regard." She scoffed. "If that's our biggest failing, then I think we're doing okay.

The Ruby Circle

It's not hard to fail...it's hard to accept you failed...but once that's out of the way, it's pretty smooth sailing

And That’s Why I’m Single

... we shoved out many hopes and fears into their hands, believing those hands were strong because they had firm handshakes. They failed us, always. There was no way they could not fail us - they were human, and so were we.

Warm Bodies

Have I mentioned the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, and the collapse of a section of the Bay Bridge, or the Oakland ‘firestorm’ of 1991? No need. There are already there, in my narratives that fail to mention them, in my dreams that fail to repr...

Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption