#lures

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#apparent #defense #democracy #failures #forces

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#backward #case #certainly #countries #crop

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ↗

— George Edward Woodberry

#defeat #failure #failures #tried #true

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#failures #i #look #made #me

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know. ↗

— Will Wright

#cool #every #failures #find #hunt

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#born #failure #failures #only #others

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#after #building #came #collecting #day

If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble. ↗

— John Gould

#failures #fix #latent #system #trouble

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#errors #failures #intent #judgment

Sometimes, leaders' failures can cost these young people's lives. ↗

— King Hussein

#failures #leaders #lives #people #sometimes