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Failing Quotes (page 25)

All our lives long, every day and every hour, we are engaged in the process of accommodating our changed and unchanged selves to changed and unchanged surroundings: living, in fact, is nothing else than this process of accommodation; when we fail in it a little we are stupid, when flagrantly we are mad, when we give up the attempt altogether we die, when we suspend it temporarily we sleep. Samuel Butler
Tis true my form is something odd But blaming me is blaming God Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you. If I could reach from pole to pole Or grasp the ocean with a span I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the man. Isaac Watts
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Love may fail, but courtesy will prevail."
Love may fail, but courtesy will prevail. Kurt Vonnegut
Despite the recurrence of events in which the debris-basin system fails in its struggle to contain the falling mountains, people who live on the front line are for the most part calm and complacent. It appears that no amount of front-page or prime-time attention will ever prevent such people from masking out the problem. John McPhee
You, Bedouin of Libya who saved our lives, though you will dwell forever in my memory yet I shall never be able to recapture your features. You are Humanity and your face comes into my mind simply as man incarnate. You, our beloved fellowman, did not know who we might be, and yet you recognized us without fail. And I, in my turn, shall recognize you in the faces of all mankind. You came towards me in an aureole of charity and magnanimity bearing the gift of water. All my friends and all my... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Aleister Crowley quote: "Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to..."
Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it. Aleister Crowley
Terry Goodkind quote: "I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act."
I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act. Terry Goodkind
How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures? Herman Hesse
He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap. John Fowles
To do good to one is to do bad to another. But you don't need to hear my excuses. They are the same that everyone makes to themselves when faced with the misery of others; though they would like to do the right thing, they simply fail to do so and look after themselves instead. Fay Weldon
I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop my desires and sorrows from being violent ones); what impels me, secretly and obstinately, is not tactical: I accept and I affirm, irrespective of the true and the false, of success and failure; I am withdrawn from all finality, I live according to chance... Roland Barthes
The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Evelyn Waugh quote: "He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]"
He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...] Evelyn Waugh
Margaret Atwood quote: "He has been trying to sing. Love into existence again. And he..."
He has been trying to sing. Love into existence again. And he has failed Margaret Atwood
Emily Dickinson quote: "Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above."
Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above. Emily Dickinson

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