In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.
Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.
If I had to pick one song for me that sort of quintessentially summed me up, it would be 'Angel.' Without fail, I absolutely love singing it.
As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.
Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
Elwood: Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail me now.
EVERYTIME A GIRL WISHES TO BE A BOY BADLY, IT'S A SIGNAL THAT OUT SOCIETY FAILED IN ITS DEEDS SOMEWHERE.
If we don't build a company as influential as Google or Facebook, then we failed. I'm, like, perpetually stressed, honestly.
I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.
They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn't copy my professionalism.
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.
I don't think anyone would look at Colombia today and say that it is failing. This positive outcome is an example of the effective application of smart power - it is succeeding.
We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.
