#failed

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 AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#even #facts #failed #field #focused

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded. ↗

— Dale Turner

#better #correct #failed #mistake #nothing

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#failed #humiliating #idiots #more #nothing

I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#asked #bent #day #doubt #each

The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that is what they failed to do. ↗

— David Trimble

#behaved #completely #disarmed #failed #had

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 religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#cost #failed #fairness #god #led

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#business #business owners #closing #entrepreneurs #failed

Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#bush #clinton #clinton administration #creating #eventually