Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.
I’m not afraid of falling or failing, because I’ve failed many times, and I learned from them.
I failed music when I was a teenager.
The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry.
Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior – carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.
I just assume that I’ll fail at something for several years – that I’ll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With writing, that turned out to be wrong. I tried my hardest and failed for about fifteen years.
During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.
I’m a failed newspaper man myself.
Historical fiction was not – and is not – meant to supplant literature from the period it describes. As a veteran of the Crimea, Tolstoy wrote ‘War and Peace’ to match his own internal sense of the truth of the Napoleonic wars, to dramatize what he felt literature from that period had failed to describe.
Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence.
I’m a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.
We need to eradicate these terrorist groups, wherever they are. If we failed to do it, we are just waiting for the next.
I just did not get on at my school. It completely failed to inspire me.
Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you’ve failed.
This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.
The WWE has failed in India.
As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.
I’ve often thought if I didn’t make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.
I’m having a good time watching Shooter. He’s a good kid. He’s been a good son to me. He has never failed.
Iran would have become a nuclear power had President Obama not united most of the world in boycotting Iranian oil sales, which crippled Iran’s economy and forced it to negotiate. Other presidents tried to stop Iran’s nuclear program. They failed. Obama succeeded.
When I started out I was a failed actor.
I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people – immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe. But one regret as I get older is that I haven’t been radical and wild enough.
The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of ‘Gasland,’ and has failed.
The last four years under President Obama have been trying and troubling for this entire country. The tired big government policies of the past have failed us. We can’t afford more disappointments. We need a new direction. We need a new president.
If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, ‘Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,’ and get on with it.
My artist career failed pretty miserably multiple times.
With ‘Ilustrado,’ I set out to change the way we read literature, and I think I failed spectacularly. In fact, I know I failed. In reaching further than I could, I may not have produced a life- or literature-changing book, but I did produce one I am proud of.
Over the year,s the government launched more than one ‘war on corruption,’ and they all failed. Why? Because they all started from the bottom up.
The Democrats have failed to have a real robust message for working-class people in places like Ohio – these states that Donald Trump came in and won.
I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can’t pass a complicated government-run plan.
It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.
I always wanted to play with the older kids because they were better and it was more fun. It was harder, and I failed more, but it was more fun.
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up.
The revolutions of my century, the 20th century – the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba – failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century.
Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap.
I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I’ve still got the day job, and the travel bug.
Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn’t work, and it takes confidence to say we haven’t failed yet… Ultimately, you become commercially successful.
Arizona did not make illegal, illegal. It is a crime to enter or remain in the U.S. in violation of federal law. States have had inherent authority to enforce immigration laws when the federal government has failed or refused to do so.
Having written both comedy and drama, comedy’s harder because the fear of failure’s so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn’t make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn’t. Failed drama, it’s all, ‘That’s not that compelling,’ but failed comedy just lays there.
I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning’s letters.
I think it’s better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!
And as a filmmaker, I’m trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don’t believe that.
The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it’s failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
We had a mission at PayPal – which was to create a new financial system, a new world currency, and we failed. We were a financial success, but we didn’t succeed at the purpose of our company.
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.
And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!
I failed the audition to get into drama school.
My dad’s a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him.
If giving tax breaks to millionaires created jobs or grew our economy, I would be in favor of them, but they are the same failed policies of the past that just don’t work.
My failed corporate career became the fodder for the ‘Dilbert’ comic. Once it became clear I would not be climbing any higher on the corporate ladder, it freed me to mock managers without worrying that it would stall my career. Most failures create some sort of unplanned freedom. I took full advantage of mine.
Failed weapons tests are necessary components of the weapons development process.
