Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierce Brown

I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.

There have been many merit pay plans over the years. Those that were funded failed miserably when the funding disappeared.

Is it a failure? No. But we need to do much, much better.

Kurt Cobain

Things have never been so swell, i have never failed to fail

The worst thing we can do is to start firing people because they failed to show up to work.

The word 'genocide' has become too repeated and become another line people use to talk the talk. The U.S. should not follow the failure of the UN.

Bill Clinton

The violence does not demonstrate that the quest for peace has gone too far -- but that it has not gone far enough. And it points not to the failure of negotiations -- but to the futility of violence and force.

Try to use the pronoun 'we' instead of 'you,' and speak about the intended result instead of the failed attempt.

Thomas Sowell

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

yet another reminder that the governor has failed to provide leadership in Sacramento and work with the Legislature to get things done.

While they're willing to seek subpoenas for people without associations with Apple, they failed to review laptops or e-mails.

You can look at it as a way to fail or you can look at it as a great opportunity to succeed. I guess we're lucky that we have kids who look at it as a great opportunity to make a big play and have a great victory.

We've had our first test, and we've failed miserably,

Wrestling is one of those things that you'll always feel like you've failed because it's always so individualized. Unless you get everyone through that you want, you are going to be disappointed. This was the toughest sectional in the state.

Mary Pickford

There is always another chance... This thing called 'failure' is not falling down, but staying down.

There is a lot of hope for the best. But if the two parties fail to resolve the venue issue and a way for talks, we will see a worse escalation in the violence.

Eric Chavez

We felt like we were playing with house money when they failed to run home on that ball.

We don't want a repeat of those failures that were embarrassing to them.

John King

We're very good at telling what happens and showing people while it happens... But sometimes television fails to take the time to say 'Why did it happen? What does it mean?' - To step back a little bit.

US and Iraqi leaders have failed the Iraqis.

John Beck

You don't know how grateful I am I didn't fail you.

At the end of the day, this was an extraordinary failure on so many levels.

Phil Knight

At the end of the day, I guess my feeling is that it was sort of a failure to communicate.

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

The response by our government has been late, it has been inadequate, and it has been a failure for far too many,

There's only two kinds of levees, ... Ones that have failed and those that will fail.

There's nobody here to protect us. It's very disappointing to see people we put our trust in they failed us.

Johnny Damon

There's not many teams who fail to pursue their most popular player or one of their better players. I know the Yankees would never be like that.

The tragedy of Katrina wasn't the failure to predict the track or to predict the intensity of the storm. The tragedy was in preparing people and in particular predicting human behavior.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

And if we fail? (Delphine) It’ll suck to be human. (Madoc)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You will fail and I’ll dance on your grave. (Apollymi)

Nora Ephron

Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.