Famous Quotes & Sayings

America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.

You have already failed if you need a lot of inspectors.

Dave Eggers

I am myself a failed cartoonist, There are a million reasons to ruin things.

After Quixote collapsed, there were about four other projects that failed to fly,

Stephen Kinzer

During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a 'third force' in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy.

Thomas Mann

Do you know how many times campaign-finance reform failed before final passage in 2002? Many times.

Kevin Madden

Ronnie Earle's previous misuse of his office has resulted in failed prosecutions and we trust his partisan grandstanding will strike out again, as it should.

The sharp gains on Wall Street failed to restore investors' confidence.

Lee H. Hamilton

The status quo failed us. Reform is an urgent matter, and reform must not wait until the next attack.

William Banting

This led me to other medical advisers, to whom I am also indebted for much kind consideration, though, unfortunately, they failed in relieving me.

Andrea Seigel

As evidenced during my failed audition, I'm a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a 'Real World' house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.

As a player, especially me, I feel like I failed the manager, ... Unfortunately, he has to be the fall guy. If we were 91-71, he'd be voted Manager of the Year.

Ozzie Guillen

They executed better. We failed at moving guys over. We didn't do the job.

Mahela Jayawardene

I am not happy at all. Our star batsmen failed to play big innings.

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

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.

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.

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.

Eric Chavez

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

US and Iraqi leaders have failed the Iraqis.

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.

I don't think the secretary-general wants another failed effort.

In California, we know that we have two kinds of levees: Those that have failed and those that will fail.

It was the guy's fault. He had a stop sign and he failed to yield. Never saw them coming.

Joely Fisher

It's sad to say, but I'm the kid who failed PE in high school. How do you fail PE? I had to repeat it four times my senior year!

It's quite possible you'll get some failed trades, ... but there won't be any showstoppers - at least not in London.

It's only for treatment-resistant patients -- people who have failed many other treatments and are very very sick with few other options.