Fails Quotes

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

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

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it's a great excuse.

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.

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

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed.

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?

The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.

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.

I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked.

War is what happens when language fails.

When all else fails, complicate matters.