Fails Quotes

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

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.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

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.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again.

No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately.

The Afghan security forces will always have the help of the U.S. American military to ensure that Afghanistan never fails.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.