Fails Quotes

Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the case for years now. We pay a price when our political system cannot come together and agree on the difficult but necessary steps to rein in entitlement spending or reform our tax system.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.

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.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.