#failures

We are all failures at least, all the best of us are. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#failures #least #us

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#damn #failures #give #good #good terms

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. ↗

— Charles J. Givens

#failures #inaction #losses #past #reason

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. ↗

— Steve King

#constitutional #constitutional republic #crafted #democracy #failures

It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#dream #failures #forgiven #life #people

I was always useless at flirting, and simply did not know what needed to be done in order to snare my target... I always ended up resorting to jokes, and most men don't like funny women. They like to do the jokes. ↗

— Joan Sims

#flirting #romantic-failures #womanly-wiles #men

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen. ↗

— Keren Ann

#bound #even #experiences #failures #happen

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#climb #failures #finding #heaven #most

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#addressed #classic #collective #democracy #energy

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases. ↗

— David Brin

#berlin #berlin wall #cases #failures #fall