Quotes of: When-all-else-fails Keyword

Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.

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

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.

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

Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.

Love in the Ruins

[John] Kobak explained, 'The way you learn anything is that something fails, and you figure out how not to have it fail again.

Pursuit of Power: NASA's Propulsion Systems Laboratory No. 1 and 2

The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.

Rebecca

We don't really have a song or anything." I pondered that for a second. "I guess we've failed as a couple in that regard." She scoffed. "If that's our biggest failing, then I think we're doing okay.

The Ruby Circle

It's not hard to fail...it's hard to accept you failed...but once that's out of the way, it's pretty smooth sailing

And That’s Why I’m Single

... we shoved out many hopes and fears into their hands, believing those hands were strong because they had firm handshakes. They failed us, always. There was no way they could not fail us - they were human, and so were we.

Warm Bodies

Have I mentioned the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, and the collapse of a section of the Bay Bridge, or the Oakland ‘firestorm’ of 1991? No need. There are already there, in my narratives that fail to mention them, in my dreams that fail to repr...

Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption

Never mind your intentions. Communication is about what others hear with your words.

What More Can I Say?: Why Communication Fails and What to Do About It

I have associated myself with failed scientists in order to associate myself with failed irony. ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")

Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

Rita Dove

Obama isn't just too big to fail. He's too big to know. Obama is so vital to the country and to the world, he must be kept out of the loop in order to save him from his failed presidency.

Rush Limbaugh

I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions.

Roxane Gay

There's a lot of kids who look up to me, and that's humbling. Because being human, I don't want to fail them. But being human, I will. That's why it's so important to have your faith put in something that won't fail you. And that means the Son of God...

Si Robertson

For when I waltzed with Chris, I'd made him someone else.

Flowers in the Attic

When they're talking about me they're letting someone else rest.

Going to the Chapel

When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time.

Are We There Yet?

Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.

Venus Williams

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

Venus Williams

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Edward Steichen