#failed

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#himself #i #interesting #know #life

The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#acting #alternatives #creating #dangerous #essential

True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#controlling #failed #gained #influence #life

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage. ↗

— Joan Didion

#child #engage #failed #flat #had

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#failed #first #freeze #i #i always

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#almost #chemistry #failed #i

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#big #biotechnology #bright #bright future #centralized

In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed. ↗

— John Eaton

#being #experience #failed #how #i

We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq! ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#breeding #clear #collapsed #could #decision

We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can be launched anywhere in the world. ↗

— Liam Fox

#afghanistan #anywhere #backwards #base #become