#failed

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #failed




I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.


Nina Bawden


#along #cleaning #deciding #exam #failed

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.


Max Beerbohm


#dogs #failed #find #inspire #kind

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.


William Bennett


#any #assume #child #does #elementary

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.


Robert Browning


#better #failed #god #high #i

If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.


Gene Cernan


#could #failed #flip #fly #ground

Another part of the global war on terrorism that Canada and the United States are working on together is in helping failed states, states like Afghanistan, where people have no voice.


Paul Cellucci


#another #canada #failed #global #global war

Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family.


Paul Cellucci


#basic #body #canada #effective #efforts

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.


Andrew Cuomo


#declaration #failed #fails #government #indeed

Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like.


Geoff Davis


#america #bailouts #economy #employers #failed

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.


T. S. Eliot


#failed #most #some #writers