#failed

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

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

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished. ↗

— James Buchan

#crisis #economists #economy #failed #financial

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

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#anything #barack #barack obama #before #country

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#bible #distresses #failed #give #give me

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#apparent failure #blessing #failed #failure #god

It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#america #asking #begun #belief #decline