When All Else Fails Quotes

• If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Laughter, Mistake, Humorous

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1975.

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• When all else fails, look cute.

  Jim Davis

  Funny, Cute, Humor

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• Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing.

  Angus Young

  People, Dancing, Trying

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• When all else fails there's always delusion.

  Conan O'Brien

  Failing, Absurd, Delusion

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• When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.

  Marcus Garvey

  People, Failing, Organize

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• Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

  Sam Walton

  Inspirational, Song, Fun

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• Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heart, Hands

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.52, CCEL

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• When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.

  Marie Leszczynska

  Jesus, Religion, Woods

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• Preach the gospel wherever you can; when all else fails use words.

  Francis of Assisi

  Compassion, Use, Failing

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• Prayer succeeds when all else fails

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Prayer, Succeed

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.52, CCEL

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• When all else fails, read the instructions.

  Agnes Allen

  Failing, Instruction, Murphys Law

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• When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.

  Sue Grafton

  Perfect, House, Cleaning

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"O" is for Outlaw”, p.180, Macmillan

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• I can't sleep,I can't but when all else fails I just breath.

  Pamela Moore

  Sleep, Failing, Breaths

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• When all else fails, dream bigger.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Failing, Bigger

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• When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

  Sam Walton

  Song, Silly, Costumes

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.316, Bantam

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• I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

  E. O. Wilson

  Men, Failing, Reason

  "Bill Moyers talks with E.O. Wilson". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. July 6, 2007.

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• When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.

  Herman Cain

  Names, Personality, Politics

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• When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

  Stephen King

  Giving Up, Library, Failing

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• When all else fails, complicate matters

  Aaron Allston

  Matter, Failing

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• When all else fails, take a vacation.

  Betty Williams

  Vacation, Failing

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• I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner.

  Errol Morris

  Hero, Opportunity, Long Ago

  "Greasing the Ad Engine: Errol Morris". Sandy Hunter, Boards Magazine, August 1, 2000.

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• Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.

  Anne Lamott

  Failing, Instruction

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.75, Penguin

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• I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being a cat are. When all else fails, wash. And I think I could master the thing that cats do, where they stalk away pretending they meant to do whatever it was in the first place; showing their wounded dignity.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Thinking, Long

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• She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that’s the best you can do with people. I’d tried kindness. I’d tried friendship. I’d tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Jobs, Kindness, Eye

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2001). “Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.283, Penguin

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• When all else fails, start running!

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Failing

  Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.1, Rodale

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