Fails Quotes

• Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Time
  • Reason
  • Cure

• To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I'm not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Fall

• Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Experience
  • Teach
  • Fails

• Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Chance
  • Fails
  • Audacity

• A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.

  

  Emile Gaboriau
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Father

• Eventually everything fails me, but when I look at the sunset or the sky, I'm reminded what it's like to be alive.

  

  Jon Foreman
  • Alive
  • Fails
  • Reminded

• The man unwilling to brave the test has already shown himself to be much more craven than the man who fails.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Brave
  • Fails
  • Craven

• The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think it fails to achieve this goal. The argument does not refute the Carnapian thesis that scientific theories and metaphysical claims differ epistemologically - observations can provide evidence for the former, but not for the latter.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Goal
  • Achieve
  • Evidence

• It is going to be a long, hard haul; it will require patience, courage, faith that hangs on when hope fails, if we are to tame the rude barbarity of man, so that the atomic age becomes a blessing, not a curse. There never was such a day for the Christian gospel. God help us all in these years ahead to make that gospel live in men and nations!

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • God
  • Courage
  • Patience

• There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Questions
  • Fails

• I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.

  

  Sid Waddell
  • Talk
  • Breath
  • Fast

• I recognized my own creative voice filtered through those six strings, but it was also something else entirely. Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Language
  • Recognized
  • Fails

• Bohr’s standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does not consist only of physics, and life does not consist only of science. The aim of atomic research is to fit our empirical knowledge concerning it into our other thinking. All of this other thinking, so far as it concerns the outer world, is active in space and time. If it cannot be fitted into space and time, then it fails in its whole aim and one does not know what purpose it really serves.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Research

• No wonder that my remembrance fails me, for I shall complete my 70 years next Sunday (the 22); - and during these 70 years I have had a happy life; which still remains happy because of hope and content.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Wonder
  • Fails
  • Remembrance

• Everything fails, all the time.

  

  Werner Vogels
  • Everything
  • Fails

• It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Fails

• Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

  

  Carl Orr
  • Music
  • Aim
  • Listeners

• Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Change
  • Early
  • Late

• Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Wisdom
  • Fails
  • Succeeds

• Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Prayer
  • Medicine
  • Fails

• The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. If the challenge is not accepted, or is accepted and the attempt fails, we are far enough from certainty still; but we have done the best that the existing state of human reason admits of; we have neglected nothing that could give the truth a chance of reaching us.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Truth
  • Challenge
  • Beliefs

• Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Law
  • Church
  • Regularity

• Without your right to have money that holds it's value, all else just fails because you don't have any real money.

  

  Bernard von NotHaus
  • Money
  • Value
  • Fails

• What if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction? ... Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction. And some day, some way, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Fails
  • Saddam

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