Failing Quotes - Page 31

• When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me.

  George Stevens

  Men, Hands, Want Him

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• After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.

  Alan Gottlieb

  Gun, Dust, Law

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• A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come.

  Ron Paul

  Revolution, States

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• There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it.

  Henry Sy

  Good Luck, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.

  Brady Corbet

  Gun, Tests, Auditions

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• Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a person's whole experience and life. And that always there's the chance that this will fail. That things will not work out.

  Chris Kraus

  Art, Writing, Work Out

  Chris Kraus (2000). “Aliens & anorexia”, Semiotext

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• The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.

  Giuseppe Zanotti

  Cutting, Past, Thinking

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• If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.

  Andrew Forrest

  Giving Up, Knows, Ifs

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• Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Forgiving, Debt, Neighbor

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.121

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• Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Book, Development, Want

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.17

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• 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

  Men, Law, Church

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724”, p.332

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• The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.

  Edith Sitwell

  Ideas, Hands, Feelings

  Edith Sitwell (Dame) (1930). “Ser. Milton and the Augustan Age”

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• Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Thinking, Hair

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

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• Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Experience

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Logic, Impulse, All The Best

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Early Spring in Massachusetts: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”, p.51, Library of Alexandria

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• I intentionally leave adults out in my stories, not to say that they're not in charge or that they don't care, or that they're failing at what they do. Not at all. It's two things: It's a way to be true to what adolescence feels like, because, okay, your parents may be around, but you still don't want them to be around. What you go through, you go through alone, I think.

  Celine Sciamma

  Thinking, Parent, Care

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• In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Character, Passion, Citizens

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, J.R. Pole (2005). “The Federalist”, p.301, Hackett Publishing

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• When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Reality, Imagination, Desire

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• Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.

  Anais Nin

  Art

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• America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other nation. America is a heterogeneous nation of many different people of different races, religions, and creeds. Should this experiment go forth and prosper, we will have offered humans a new way to look at life; should it fail, we will simply go the way of all failed civilizations.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Dream, Race, Civilization

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, People, Minorities

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.185, Fordham Univ Press

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• To fail at all is to fail utterly.

  James Russell Lowell

  Failure

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.45

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• The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled with food, on which they may ruminate when their present pastures fail.

  Joseph Addison

  Memories, Animal, May

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.563

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• Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Tragedy, Losing

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.55, BookBaby

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• Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

  Lois Wyse

  Winning, Way, Popularity

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