#failed

The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework. ↗

— John Sununu

#compliance #constant #constant need #cost #either

The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#failed #iraq #lot #missed #opportunities

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves. ↗

— Lawrence Kasdan

#dances #every #failed #last #other

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ↗

— Allen Neuharth

#being #being afraid #down #failed #fall

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals. ↗

— Abu Abbas

#any #could #failed #goals #had

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#down #failed #leadership #need #past

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time. ↗

— George Sutherland

#carved #epitaph #failed #forth #freedom

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. ↗

— Dave Parnas

#applications #been #failed #real #repeatedly

I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least I'd know that I tried. ↗

— Michelle Branch

#figured #followed #heart #i #i tried

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

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