Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Path
  • Leave
  • Lead

• I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Happy
  • Passion
  • Ideas

• I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • School
  • Age
  • Working

• If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Better
  • Face
  • Election

• I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Happy
  • Relationship
  • Very

• I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Journalism

• 'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Politics

• I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Find
  • Partner
  • Musical

• I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Woman
  • Military
  • Affair

• I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and it's about people with powers, but the story behind that story is a story of family.

  

  Dana Davis
  • People
  • Family
  • Think

• Of course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Home
  • Son
  • Husband

• Big nations should not bully smaller ones. Disputes should be resolved peacefully.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Nations
  • Resolve
  • Disputes

• You guys are trying to stop Musial in 15 minutes while the National League ain’t stopped him in 15 years.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Trying
  • Stop

• My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.

  

  Elena Kagan

• Mere chance … alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Alone

• Senior academic condemns ‘deluded’ supporters of GM food as being ‘anti-science’ and ignoring evidence of dangers (4 March 2015)

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Science
  • Food
  • Senior

• When you jerk off, you’re saying 'Hey, I care about me.'

  

  Andrew Dice Clay

• My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

  

  Amy Bloom
  • Writing

• You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.

  

  Vince Cable
  • People
  • Power
  • Party

• We're conditioned to let businesses fail, regardless of how much we like them. We believe that if the market doesn't want that bookstore to exist, then it shouldn't exist.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Believe

• In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.

  

  James Welch
  • World
  • Country
  • Lost

• I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.

  

  Steve Earle
  • People
  • Years
  • Knows

• The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Power
  • Succeed
  • Failures