#failed

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #failed




When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.


Norm MacDonald


#bother #cancer #courageous #defeated #did

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.


David Mamet


#branches #citizenry #failed #government #mass

Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of health care, you cried 'Stop!'... but the Democratic Majority in Washington has refused to listen.


Kevin McCarthy


#care #cried #democratic #failed #government

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 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

So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens.


David Zucker


#box office #failed #first #happens #hear

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