Quotes of: When-all-else-fails Keyword

A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.

Signs of War

When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.

Owen Jones

When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

Corrie Ten Boom

I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big story of the world. People weren't islands, so far as I was concerned. How could they be, when their stories kept getting tan...

Spirits in the Wires

I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere e...

Life

I fail all of the time. It means nothing.

Gene Simmons

I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language.

Tim Scott

When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to ...

Ali Larter

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

Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.

Zachary Knighton

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.

Sarah McLachlan

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

Alicia Keys

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

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

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

A victim is someone who blames it all on someone else. Why give all the power to someone else and leave yourself powerless?

Christina Moss

We all have our strengths and our failings.

Hannah Simone

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

John Backus

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Mark Van Doren

It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built, that's how every Partial is wired - to follow orders and trust in our leaders - but it's not enough. It never has be...

Fragments

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

Luis Palau

When we fail, our pride supports us, and when we succeed it betrays us.

Charles Colton