Failing Quotes - Page 22
When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.
Theodore Roosevelt (2009). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.146, Courier Corporation
Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.81, Random House
"Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.
Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.54, The Overlook Press
Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.450
Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.107
Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.245
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1958). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”