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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.

Some are born to fail. Others have it thrust upon them.

Somebody is going to win & somebody is not, and that's fine... But we will never refuse to participate because we're scared to fail.

Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes.

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

Sometimes you fail your chemistry test and other times it's explosive.

Somewhat predictably, I'm much more comfortable in front of an audience - and a big audience is even better - than faced with one stranger. This always seems like a bit of a failing on my part, as a human. I think that's also why I put myself situations where I'm forced to engage in other ways.

So rage, proud Power: fail again! And see my blood teach Death to die!

Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.

Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.

Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home.

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

Successful people just don't let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I'd have people come up to me after my shows, and they'd say they want to do stand-up but are scared they're going to fail. I'd tell them, "You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.

Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.

That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.

The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.

That's the marvellous thing about seasteads; if a government fails, there's nothing much the people who live there can do about it. But if seasteads fail, they simply disassemble and go away.

The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus.

The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.

The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race.

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

The bottom line is, you can't be afraid to fail.

The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.

The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.