#lure

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#ask #been #capacity #either #exhausts

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#away #christ #fall #help #jesus

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#failure #first #i #man #me

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#i #man #me #satisfied #show

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#commerce #failure #humanity #me #often

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone. ↗

— Edmond H. Fischer

#commonly #considering #fails #failure #far

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

#cancel #finger #half #having #line

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#risk #run #succeed

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#best #done #down #even #failure

The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#among #belief #broaden #broken #certain