Quotes of: When-all-else-fails Keyword

What do you believe in?’ asked David. ‘I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their good fortune to him, but when he ignores their pleas or l...

The Book of Lost Things

I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their good fortune to him, but when he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, they say only that he...

The Book of Lost Things

I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from ...

The Art of Piano Playing

I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns, or if they had changed so that they hated all unicorns now and tried to kill them when they saw them. But not to see them at all, to look at them and see something else-what do the...

The Last Unicorn

AGE DIFFERENCE What if I told you that one day you will meet a girl who is unlike anyone else you've known. She will know all the right things to say, what makes you laugh, what turns you on, what drives you wild and best of all, you will do for her ...

Lang Leav

There will come a time,' I said, 'when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Ar...

The Fault in Our Stars

A virtue is a habit that includes all of these things: actions (you take care of your child even when you don't feel like it), emotions (you are often overtaken by feelings of tenderness and delight), perceptions (you understand your little children ...

Good News for Anxious Christians: Ten Practical Things You Don't Have to Do

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only...

American Pastoral

Maybe if we all prayed for somebody else, somehow we'd all be forgiven.

Dancing in the Dark

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

Joanna Lumley

All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else the race would become extinct. Each has his business to perform, his part to act. It is a duty he owes to the rest as we...

Joseph P. Bradley

If you try, you've got a chance at succeeding. Failure isn't guaranteed. If you don't even try at all, you've already failed.

Love on the Boardwalk

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

The Light That Failed

All of us fail, but this doesn't mean we are failures.

The Search for Significance Workbook: Building Your Self-Worth on God's Truth

But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.

Panic

Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.

Theodore Dalrymple

All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

Leland Stanford

We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!

Mehmet Murat ildan

It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.

Alan Arkin

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

Dorothea Brande

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

John Drinkwater