Fails Quotes

Everybody know death is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch everybody by surprise everytime one is going — Hlovate

When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food. — Gail Carriger

The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion. — Alan Furst

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

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. — Josh Billings

The world will not fail if Pakistan fails, but the world will be healthier if Pakistan is healthy. — Mohsin Hamid

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. — Henry David Thoreau

It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God. — Michael Leunig

If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better. — Jane Austen

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds? — Robert Hughes

In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails. — Saint Augustine

Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails. — Joanna Russ

Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.
— Mariane Pearl

If human help fails, God will never forsake thee. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm not really sure what I'm going to do when I get there, but that's why someone invented the fine art of improv. Or, when that fails, stalling. — Danielle Ellison

Minimalism is a girl's best asset, blend tones, smudge hard outlines; if all else fails; Photoshop it. — Judith Chambers

Where love fails we espy all faults. — John Ray

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails. — Jean Cocteau

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. — Michael Jordan

There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise. — Immanuel Kant

The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds. — Voltaire

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. — William James

All you need to know is this. You can never go wrong by voting for a bill that fails, or against a bill that passes. — Bob Dole

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn. — George Bernard Shaw

When all else fails, take a vacation. — Betty Williams

I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure. — E. M. Forster

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. — A.S. Byatt

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle. — Cher

Nothing which is so weak for working purposes as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success. — G.K. Chesterton

A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord's plan to give us challenges. — Nicholas Sparks

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination. — W.W. Sawyer

Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise. — E. M. Forster

When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will. — Marcus Garvey

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail. — Horace Mann

You think education is something to be done when all else fails? — T.H. White

If she fails to wake, I will kill him. I will not kill him quickly. — Michelle Sagara

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. And when I want to know something, I look it up in books
their memory never fails — Arturo Perez-Reverte

Be wary of someone who has never failed, or seem to have no faults... Too good to be true usually is. Perfection hides something. — Henry Cloud

Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ourselves have to stop. — Joy Williams

It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause. — James Grant

When all else fails, drink some tea. Really. You'll be amazed how many problems it can solve. We like to think of it as Buddha's whiskey. — Tara Cottrell

Suicide may be a choice, but not as much as it is expected when everything else fails. — Mark Brightlife

Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought. — Terry Pratchett

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. — Winston S. Churchill

When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you. — Marie Leszczynska

Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient. — Michael Porter

People suffering nervous breakdowns often do a lot of research, to find explanations for what they are undergoing. the research, of course fails. — Philip K. Dick

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

When the effort fails, is it worth the cost? — Maria V. Snyder

A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible. — Erwin Rommel

When all else fails, write. — Nigel Barto

Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us. — Mahatma Gandhi

If Iraq fails to fully comply, the United States and other nations will disarm Saddam Hussein. — George W. Bush

Marcus is a great example of that way of thinking. He's always looking for ways a security system fails. — Cory Doctorow

When all else fails, God never fails. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no one Reality,
There is only one's Perception.
Love Never Fails.
keep doing The Happy Dance — Silvina Faiella Miller

Intelligence fails because it is human, no stronger than the power of one mind to understand another. (480) — Tim Weiner

Your ego is an avid interpreter. It is so quick to interpret events as 'bad' or 'good,' 'wrong' or 'right.' It never fails to see 'the little picture. — Robert Holden

When reason fails, the devil helps! he thought with a strange grin. This chance raised his spirits extraordinarily. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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. — Norman Douglas

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

Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something. — David Gemmell

When all else fails, don't take it in silence: scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling down, serenaded by a brace of trombones, scream — Dambudzo Marechera

CARRIE WHITE IS BURNING FOR HER SINS JESUS NEVER FAILS — Stephen King

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere. — Frank Arthur Swinnerton

On losing a player due to academics - "Our team traveled 25,000 miles, then he fails geography. — John Heisler

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. — John Kenneth Galbraith

The way you teach a child to eat well is through example, enthusiasm, and patient exposure to good food. And when that fails, you lie. — Bee Wilson

Financial " synergy " is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice. — Peter Drucker

Society does not judge those it admires, they are deified. Yet it so eagerly burn those it fails to understand — Ole H.

I have not seen much dignity in the process by which we die. The quest to achieve true dignity fails when our bodies fail. — Sherwin B. Nuland

Greed, in the end, fails even the greedy. — Cathryn Louis

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sometimes we look but don't see, listen but don't hear, touch but don't feel. If one sense fails, the others step in. — Allen Carr

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling. — Elie Wiesel

I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails. — Bruce Johnston

God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows. — Jeremy Taylor

Death is the one friend who never fails any man. — Evangeline Walton

Those who never trial, never fails. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A father is a man who fails every day. — Michael Chabon

The first way design fails is due to lack of it. — Sandi Metz

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

It's heartbreaking when you love a book that fails. And it always
seems to happen to the nicest authors. — Emily Giffin

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age. — Jane Addams

If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters. — Chris Guillebeau

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

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much. — Arnold J. Toynbee

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

How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate? — Robert A. Heinlein

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense. — Alexander Pope

If justice fails in the courtroom, it will not prevail in society.
A broken Justice System does not protect the rights of all people. — Ellen J. Barrier

Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails. — John Bytheway

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government. — Jim Bunning

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails. — Confucius

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

Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve. — Randy Pausch

He alone fails who gives up and lies down. — Ralph Waldo Trine

When reason fails, the devil helps! — Markus Zusak

Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal. — Moliere

It never fails. God will put people in your path that irritate you, especially if you're prone to be irritated. — Rich Mullins