Failing Quotes
-
I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening; the principal failing in his character as a philosopher is that he does not smoke.
-
I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.
-
The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.
-
Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing.
-
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.
-
The proverb answers where the sermon fails.
-
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
-
Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent.
-
Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
-
It is pointless to get your knickers in a twist if a certain person fails to react the way you want. It is best to avoid people and situations that you know drive you crazy. Remember to vote with your feet. If a situation is untenable or unchangeable, walk away.
-
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
-
I search the phrase "Kellyanne Conway fails," and I'm just watching that Scottie [Nell Hughes] woman smirk all the time.
-
If you fail to report within the next 12 hours. you will be terminated. If you attack any humans, you will be terminated. If you attempt to remove the tracking device, you will be terminated. We look forward to working with you.
-
We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.
-
We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.
-
If you don't fail on a regular basis, you are not trying hard enough.
-
Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.
-
The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.
-
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
-
The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.
-
Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes.
-
If you ask people to do things and they usually don't get around to them, stop asking yourself, "What's the matter with people these days?" Instead, ask yourself, "What's the matter with me? What am I doing or failing to do that causes people to give me empty promises?"
-
Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).
-
Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.
