Failing Quotes - Page 30

• Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps treating you like a piece of fine china. The man who worships you in this way is not seeing you; he is seeing his fantasy, and when you fail to live up to that image he may turn nasty. So there may not be much difference between the man who talks down to you and the one who elevates you; both are displaying a failure to respect you as a real human being and bode ill.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Real, Men, Worship You

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• Love is patient. Love is kind. It bears all things. Love never fails. Love is as strong as death.

  O.R. Melling

  Strong, Love Is, Bears

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• I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.

  James D. Watson

  Wings, Evil, Want

  "James Watson: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. October 19, 2007.

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• Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death.
  Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story.

  N.D. Wilson

  Summer, Mother, Self

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• Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.

  Calamity Jane

  Exception

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• I exercise every morning without fail. One eyelid goes up and the other follows.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Morning, Exercise, Eyelids

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• The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.

  Chris Pine

  Wire, Film, Theater

  "Chris Pine Remains People Like Us". Interview with Ann Lieber, www.theatermania.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I think comedy Ive learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

  Jamie Lynn Sigler

  Thinking, Comedy, Ive Learned

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• I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

  Kevin Bacon

  Successful, Numbers, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Successful businesspeople retain a quality most others not only lack but often fail to comprehend, and that's the unrelenting drive to convert a vision into reality. They are driven to realize this goal in a manner that appears to defy logic among others who lack this drive.

  Robert Herjavec

  Successful, Reality, Goal

  Robert Herjavec (2010). “Driven: How to Succeed in Business and in Life”, p.13, HarperCollins Canada

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• Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

  Horace

  Cutting, Knots, Ridicule

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• There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Iron, Suffering

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• Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Want, Produce, Benevolence

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (2006). “A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.200, Penguin UK

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• Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friends, Manners, Chosen

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.167

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• A fallible being will fail somewhere.

  Samuel Johnson

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1807). “Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson”, p.85

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• It's easy for me to work with other girls because I'm a tomboy and I don't want the guy, your boyfriend - I'm not interested in looking better than you, so don't worry. Fail or win, whatever it is, I need to go do stuff.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Girl, Winning, Worry

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• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  Hannah Simone

  "New Girl: Hannah Simone on Playing Drunk and Schmidt's "Hidden Talent"". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. January 30, 2012.

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• I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.’ So I jump on the airplane, try new things—sometimes I get in way over my head, but then I think, I’ll work my way out of this somehow. A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning…The thing I love about living in New York is that I never fail to get up in the morning and think, Something adventurous is going to happen today. The energy is operating at full throttle all the time. And if you want to be lucky you’ve got to go out and take advantage of it.

  Tom Brokaw

  Morning, New York, Mistake

  "Tom Brokaw: 'I'm The Luckiest Guy in the World'" by Kathleen Mccleary, parade.com. May 1, 2015.

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• If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.

  Vinnie Jones

  Ties, Waiting, Firsts

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• The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

  Cornelia Parker

  Adventure, World, Too Much

  Cornelia Stratton Parker (1934). “Wanderer's Circle”

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• Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

  Bill Hader

  Comedy, Not Afraid, Afraid To Fail

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• A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

  Benjamin Butler

  Selfish, Men, Interest

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• If everything I did failed - which it doesn't, it actually succeeds - just the fact that I'm willing to fail is an inspiration. People are so scared to lose that they don't even try. Like, one thing people can't say is that I'm not trying, and not I'm not trying my hardest, and I'm not trying to do the best way I know how.

  Kanye West

  Inspiration, Trying My Hardest, People

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• To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.

  Jessica Marais

  Moving, Reading, Mockingbird

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• If another euro country fails, so does Slovakia. Our economy is 80% open and if the citizens of Spain and Portugal have no money to buy cars made here in Slovakia then that will be bad for us. Everything is connected.

  Iveta Radicova

  Country, Car, Spain

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