Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.
I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?'
But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Patience is the path to opportunities. We gain patience through prayer and meditation. Within that vein, we never consider ourselves having failed.
We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that's the only way we grow.
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. Rita Mae Brown
Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters.
If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.
Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt.
To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.
In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.
Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
