Quotes of: Failing Keyword

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

Donny Osmond

If giving tax breaks to millionaires created jobs or grew our economy, I would be in favor of them, but they are the same failed policies of the past that just don't work.

Tim Walz

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

Omar N. Bradley

The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

Peter Arnett

Another part of the global war on terrorism that Canada and the United States are working on together is in helping failed states, states like Afghanistan, where people have no voice.

Paul Cellucci

To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the biggest businesses is empowering and hopeful, rather than disappointing. My conclusion is not a moralistic one about who is right or wrong, admirable o...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to justify treating them fairly. ... By invoking this assumption [i.e., that they were/are better environmen...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Love is fragile at best and often a burden or something that blinds us. It's fodder for poets and song writers and they build it into something beyond human capacity. Falling in love means enrolling yourself in the school of disappointment. Being hum...

Heart Song

The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives again; and we’re going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This ...

The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision

Nationalism and socialism as actually lived and applied in the 20th century are the same thing (and in the 18th and 19th century, nationalism was often a force for classical liberalism!). It’s all a kind of reactionary tribalism (another “ism” ...

Jonah Goldberg

Casson: No wonder our people are giving up, they've lost faith! Montclair: We've failed them every single time! Col. Rodin: We won't fail them again! Casson: What can we do? We're paralyzed! Montclair: Every cop in France has memorized our faces! Inf...

The Day of the Jackal

Everybody know death is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch everybody by surprise everytime one is going

Contengan Jalanan

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, to succeed is a natural consequence of Cosmic Ordering.

Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.

The Drowned Cities

Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument.

Ender's Game

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

Expanded Universe

I’d rather fail miserably pursuing my dreams than succeed at something I have to settle for

First Comes Love

Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Handle with Care

Surely you can see the failings of the system. Inequality, injustice, unfairness, and exploitation--

Hitler Burns Detroit

When all else fails....believing in yourself will help you prevail! Try it and see

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration