Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.

Matt Lundy

We take it very seriously when someone fails validation and then responds by identifying where they received counterfeit or infringing products.

C. S. Lewis

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Lloyd Jones

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

James E. Rogers

No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately.

Michael Ignatieff

Not even a superpower can hold onto its economic sovereignty if it fails to get its fiscal house in order, and no one needs a well-regulated international economic order more than the United States.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

Anne Beatts

There was this real fear in doing 'Square Pegs' after getting such a fast ride to glory on 'Saturday Night Live'. I was afraid that the word would be 'peaks early, fails to live up to promise.'

Diana Nyad

I don't want to be the crazy woman who does it for years and years and years, and tries and fails and tries and fails and tries and fails, but I can swim from Cuba to Florida, and I will swim from Cuba to Florida.

Avery Johnson

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

Max Beerbohm

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Bill Swank

The purpose of the inspection program is to make sure that if there are poles that are deteriorating, we go out, identify them and make sure the ones that are tending toward failure are braced or replaced.

Edward McKendree Bounds

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 Markey

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

Richard P. Feynman

To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.

Richard Hofstadter

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 Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Spike Jonze

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.

George William Russell

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

Eliseo Medina

People with rights are infinitely in a better position than people who have no rights.

John Brunner

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.

Norman McLaren

If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.

Hippolyte Taine

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Gianni Agnelli

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

Craig Brown

Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.

Peter Jackson

Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.

E. Howard Hunt

I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life.

Carmelo Anthony

(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.

David Pickering

He is the right man at the right time to take Wales forward.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Bill Ross

He is tight with his mom. He has such an old-fashioned sense of responsibility. He is the man of the house.

Jason Collins

Guarding Shaq is not a one-man job. It's going to be by committee.

Joseph Lowery

Here's a man who may have a major-league arm, but he's got a bush-league attitude.

Lynne Abraham

Here's a man, since the time he fled in 1981, has never had a job, ... He has a rich wife ... he has a magnificent house. He has the method, the means and the money to make his escape.

Shannon Flaherty

Here you have a man running for national office, and he's not qualified to be a precinct chair.