It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.
Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
To all what we have not tried, we would never wish to try if we knew that we would fail.
The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.
My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.
When you fail to educate a child, you are storing him up for a future disaster.” - Abdulazeez Henry Musa.
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
What's wrong with the auto industry isn't that it failed to create jobs. What's wrong is that it emphasizes jobs over general growth itself.
Unlike a variety of other relationships,friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that they are involved or it fails to exist.
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
What would you do in life if you knew you could not fail? What would you deeply regret never risking?
Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.'
