Quotes of: When-all-else-fails Keyword

Well in case you failed to notice, In case you failed to see, This is my heart bleeding before you, This is me down on my knees These foolish games are tearing me apart Your thoughtless words are breaking my heart You're breaking my heart

Pieces of You

Good communication may not make a risky deal safe, but poor communication may sell benefits of a good deal.

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

If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you would have done if you only had the chance, you will miss your life. Ok, you will fail to connect with it. You will fail to connect with other people.

Sam Harris

It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what was possible, we lived at peace with another, surely this was proof that certain laws unknown to us held sway, or el...

Foe

It was important not to offend against the laws of magic. If a woman left you it was because you did not cast the right spell over her, or else because someone else cast a stronger enchantment than yours, or else because your marriage was cursed in s...

Salman Rushdie

We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all — by proxies we have given to greedy cor...

Wendell Berry

James T. Kirk: [to Spock] The test itself is a cheat, isn't it? I mean, you programmed it to be unwinnable. Spock: Your argument precludes the possibility of a no-win scenario. James T. Kirk: I don't believe in no-win scenarios. Spock: Then not only ...

Star Trek

I lost myself immediately in one of the books, only emerging when the phone rang. “Dashiell?” my father intoned. As if someone else with my voice might be answering the phone at my mother’s apartment. “Yes, Father?” “Leeza and I would lik...

Rachel Cohn

Writers make everybody nervous but we terrify Silly Service workers. Our apartments always look like a front for something, and no matter how carefully we tidy up for guests we always seem to miss the note card that says, "Margaret has to die soon." ...

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

The only absolute truth is change, and death is the only way to stop change. Life is a series of judgments on changing situations, and no ideal, no belief fits every solution. Yet humans need to believe in something beyond themselves. Perhaps all int...

The Parafaith War

I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on ...

Jill McCorkle

What were all of them, really, but bits of something else? Bits of stars?

Rapture

It was all fun and games until someone else's dick was in your girlfriend's TMJ mouth

Seduction and Snacks

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

Theft of Swords

We don't have to be perfect today. We don't have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the very best we can.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.

P. J. O'Rourke

It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

Robert Henri

That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.

Sri Ramakrishna

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Thomas Carlyle

While the sun is shining on you, solve all your problems or else you shall be lost forever in the darkness!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Nigel Barker