Lewis Carroll Quotes
That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
Lewis Carroll
Quotes to Explore
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner
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If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
Vin Diesel
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An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'
Damian Lewis
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
C. S. Lewis
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Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
Natalie Goldberg
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I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.
Walter Cronkite
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When you're trying to come up with a good approach to reporting on the bleeding edge of where the conversation's moving, you're just leaving a lot of people who aren't on the bleeding edge of that conversation out.
Ezra Klein
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When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.
Ernest Sosa
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We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.
Oswald Mosley
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She was making money. But she could not get over the idea that to earn her living was somewhat undignified, and she was inclined to remind you that she was a lady by birth.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.
Philip Yancey
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That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
Lewis Carroll
