In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I’ve failed.
I’ve been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed.
If you are trying to achieve the ‘perfect body’ or aspiring to be like someone else, you are only going to feel like you failed.
I didn’t get a Bachelor’s degree – I got a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts, which means I didn’t have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times.
The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That’s why al Qaeda was there in the first place.
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation’s dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.
Some people will be quite happy you have failed and will find a way to tell you so directly and indirectly. Yep, that is life. Do not let their insecurities impact you.
One of the ways my first novel failed was that I was too in love with my characters.
America’s ‘social contract’ is equal opportunity… yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.
Libya is a failed state and becoming a launching pad for external operations, as is Sinai in Egypt.
When I went to do law, I kind of drifted through that and thought, ‘I can pass these exams.’ And I didn’t – I failed three times, and each time I did worse and failed by a bigger margin. And that taught me so much.
Ten years ago, we were seen as a virtually failed state, but today we are a vibrant democracy. You can walk safely through the streets of Bogota these days.
I failed the most important people in my life, you know, on September 8, 2009. People who were relying on me more than anything.
You’ve got to have a sense of different audiences. I’m a kind of performer manque – I come from a long line of failed actors!
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you’re stupid.
To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
We haven’t done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the ’90s, but they failed.
I have failed ‘Star Wars’ trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I’ve never heard of.
With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I gave them. However, I also accept that I was part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society and the Church, which thankfully is now a thing of the past.
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
I felt great empathy for the thousands of Americans who lost their home because of a system that failed them.
I knew I wanted to try comedy and acting. Even if I failed, at least I would have tried. It’s better than never having tried.
Yes, I have ‘failed’ at marriage – a lot.
The fact is, Bush’s war policy has failed. It’s failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
I’m such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.
I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.
After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind.
I am here, a citizen of this country, and I’m saying, ‘Hey, the system failed me. I am a good citizen. I contribute to this country, and here I am sharing my story. What are you going to do now?’
If I’m astonished by what I’ve done, then I know I’ve been somewhere in the making of it but not during the making of it. Only after the fact. If I’m not astonished, then I’ve failed in the making of it.
What is the consequent effect on a society of beings looking for themselves in the myths on the screen? It’s safe to say that they have failed us, but I can’t help it… I love Movies.
In the 1920s prohibition in the US notoriously failed to tackle alcohol use, led to lethal forms of liquor entering the black market, fuelled organised crime and its associated violence, and wasted public money.
I’m finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I’m finding myself really angry over what’s happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I’m angry about cap and trade. And I’ve been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed – that is the meaning of evolution.
This world – the Western world – has failed. We must have a plan B. We’re the plan B.
When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you’ll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.
The vaunted Democratic stimulus bill has failed to stimulate anything other than a few federal bureaucrats.
After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.
It’s the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that’s failed.
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.
Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.
When you say a ‘former child star,’ you may as well say ‘failed child star.’
As evidenced during my failed audition, I’m a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a ‘Real World’ house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.
By facilitating a peace agreement and leading the reinvestment and reconstruction in Yemen, Saudi Arabia can turn around a failed state and bolster its standing as a global and regional leader.
Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.
People don’t ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can’t eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.
As a 4-star admiral, I visited over a hundred U.S. embassies all around the world, and I never failed to see lines of locals seeking visas to our nation.
While Obama’s economic policies have failed to spur growth, our anti-poverty programs have long failed to promote upward mobility and move people from welfare to work.
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
There are films that look very interesting when on paper, but things change while shooting. At times, things changed during post-production, and I see no reason to blame anything on anyone. It is a collaborative effort. If it failed, we should face it.
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.
I’ve failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
You’ve always got 20 per cent of a dressing room that won’t be happy with their manager because they want to play more often. There are players who will have been moaning all year about not being in the team, but when they got their chance they failed to take it.
I have to say, it was fun doing this ‘Love Letter’ album because, hey, man, love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forevermore, it will go on undefeated. I’m also a very loving person.
Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.
