Famous Quotes & Sayings

Politics may have failed the people of New Orleans. ... But their newspaper and other important segments of the American press did not fail them.

Ninety percent of people will fail the first 90 days. So you really have to set yourself up for success.

But it would not surprise me. If it did happen it would be pretty much a failure of leadership.

One thing this team has never failed to show is resolve.

Rita Dove

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

Doug Liman

If anything, the films that succeeded this summer and the films that failed have emboldened me and filmmakers who share my sensibility that we don't want to just churn out the same old thing,

John Montgomery

If anything fails, they fail the whole thing, and it gets pushed back to you.

I fail to understand what the real reason is for doing this.

If that integration is left to the customer, I think that we have failed the customer.

Some moments we played well but overall we struggled with our opponents because we failed to raise the pace.

Walter Kirn

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

Shane failed to fulfill the prescribed rehabilitation program scheduled by NASCAR. As a result, Shane has forfeited his opportunity to compete.

Since it failed last year, the possibility of this kind of large-scale release is low.

I have always voted every time I could get to the polls. I failed in that regard.

I felt like I had failed it, like I let it down.

Evel Knievel

You're never a failure until you fail to get up.

George Osborne

When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

Henry Miller

Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.

Helen Keller

Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

Jim Carrey

It’s Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don’t.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

George Bernard Shaw

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Hannah Simone

We all have our strengths and our failings.

Graeme Simsion

Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.

Gwen Stefani

Every day I fail at something.

I don't really know why we always seem to fail at big tournaments,

Ricky Williams

I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a drug test because I was ready to quit football,

I think there's pressure, period, regardless of the past successes or failures of any of my friends,

I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.

People here know that I don't get intimidated easily. I think the only thing I was worried about was failing because so many things have happened the last three to four years of my life.

People involved in 'Mamma Mia!' think Wynn is trashing their show because he tried -- and failed -- to get it himself.

Success is a prize given to those who try and fail willingly.