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failure
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. Max Beerbohm
failure failures god heaven lack reason restrained weak
We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition. Edward McKendree Bounds
failures intelligence intelligence-and-intellectuals late learn since
It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected. Edward Markey
failure men political
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind. Richard Hofstadter
failure effort
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. Richard Whately
failure food weight-loss
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. Totie Fields
failure blessing civil-war
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. Robert E. Lee
failure men misery
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. Samuel Johnson
failure past design
Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.
communication curious
I was always curious about-not actors-but I was always enthralled by the communication industry. TV, movie, film-all that stuff. Richard Hatch
communication welcome
I would welcome such a communication reaffirming Mr. Libby's waiver. Patrick Fitzgerald
communication lines open
GTE and BT have had discussions in the past, ... There are open lines of communication.
communication year
Have I made mistakes? Yes. Have there been communication breakdowns this year at Shepherd? Yes, and I take responsibility.
communication discussing element good meeting solving
It is a good thing that they are meeting and discussing the issue. That is the only thing to do in times of trouble, communication is a very important element in solving differences.
communication dark light
Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
communication writing mind
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. Rebecca West
communication illusion conversation
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
communication media lasts
Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email. Ryan Holmes
opposites walks setting
Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society. Richard Dawkins
opposites funny-things envy
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you. Robert M. Pirsig
opposites differences judging
The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced. Virginia Woolf
opposites water gold
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things. Rebecca Solnit
opposites people profound
I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor. Jake Gyllenhaal
opposites views tolerance
Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility. Mahatma Gandhi
opposites rivers smell
It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true. James Richardson
opposites play dumb
The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult. Kurt Tucholsky
opposites tragedy investing
Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for? Friedrich August von Hayek