#failed

I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#china #constructed #event #experience #failed

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#failed #harder #i #just #made

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#failed #few #few men #half #know

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#ahead #allowed #always #child #come

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#failed #grow #how #imagination #love

After Lockerbie, everyone thought, now we've learned the lesson of how to be proactive instead of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country. ↗

— Isaac Yeffet

#airport #around #being #came #country

Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#bought #brains #buy #failed #free

General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys? ↗

— John Brown Gordon

#fail #failed #general #georgians #here

Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#design #designed #different #everybody #exclude

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#beyond #completely #european #european governments #failed