Quotes of: When-all-else-fails Keyword

Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

Gary Hamel

When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises

Jeremy Griffith

Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.

Jim Cooper

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Maggie Gallagher

Very soon she'll join all the others who know the secret and will not tell it. Or cannot. Or try and fail because they do not know enough. They can be recognized. White faces, dazed eyes, aimless gestures, high-pitched laughter. The way they walk and...

Wide Sargasso Sea

There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other people. Very often they're not around. There's also a metaphysical loneliness. We all feel it. The burden o...

David Ignatow

Harry Cooper: [referring to everybody else, who are all upstairs] Let them stay upstairs. Let them. Too many ways those monsters can get in here. We'll see who's right. We'll see, when they come begging me to let them in down here. Helen Cooper: That...

Night of the Living Dead

When it comes to ourselves, we often have a blind spot. That is, we fail to see ourselves as others see us. We fail to recognize our most obvious traits: our strengths, weaknesses, mannerisms.

Challenge: A Daily Meditation Program Based on the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius

To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having t...

The Glass Menagerie

Be nice to people whether you mean it or not. You never know when a kind word can make a difference in another person’s day – or maybe even his or her life.

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

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive f...

Parable of the Sower

When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to st...

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.

J. R. Martinez

Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying 'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide. But come ye back when summer's in the meadow Or when the valley'...

Fred E. Weatherly

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

James Allen

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.

Bobby Rahal

Only thing that makes us fail in all moments, expectations.

Yogeshwaran Selvaraju

Never be afraid to try. The only angle through which you can approach success is by the “try-angle”. You may fail if you try, but shame unto you if you don’t try at all. If you fail…rise up and try again and again!

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

I generally find,' Clent murmured after a pause, 'that it is best to treat borrowed time the same way as borrowed money. Spend it with panache, and try to be somewhere else when it runs out.' 'And when we get found, Mr. Clent, when the creditors and ...

Fly Trap

When the nurse leaves, Doctor Rose mouths, “Act like you’re in pain.” Then she mimics a painful expression in case Summer doesn’t understand. On the contrary, Summer’s an expert at interpreting body language and reading lips. It’s all tha...

Forsaken Harbor

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I...

Lionel Messi