3 December 2020 Kathy Ireland But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.
3 December 2020 Mickey Gilley My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.
3 December 2020 Allen Tate So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
3 December 2020 Greg Bear Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it’s beautiful, it’s tough, it’s buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It’s covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.
3 December 2020 Rodney Alexander I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.
3 December 2020 Charles Inglis A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
3 December 2020 Roddy Doyle Schools don’t really allow failure and yet it’s a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.
3 December 2020 Fred Allen Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
3 December 2020 Boutros Boutros-Ghali The failure of the United Nations – My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
3 December 2020 Morton Hunt Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
3 December 2020 Roland Gift Our managers hadn’t had that kind of success – the record company hadn’t, we hadn’t – and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn’t it would be some kind of failure.
3 December 2020 China Mieville I think there’s something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.
3 December 2020 H. Stanley Judd Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing.
3 December 2020 Don Nickles But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
3 December 2020 Jon Meacham The traditional religious right’s failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.
3 December 2020 Henry Knox Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
3 December 2020 Adam Schiff Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
3 December 2020 Og Mandino Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
3 December 2020 Cory Lidle Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you’re up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
3 December 2020 Shinzo Abe I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.
3 December 2020 Matt Blunt Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
3 December 2020 John B. S. Haldane We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
3 December 2020 John Burroughs A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
