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Failing Quotes - Page 35

I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.

"The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 92, 1971.

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.121

From now onwards, whenever you fail -- just congratulate yourself.

FaceBook post by Vishwas Mudagal from Jan 13, 2015

How can you fail a test you aren't allowed to prepare for?

Veronica Roth (2011). “Divergent”, p.16, Harper Collins

I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment.

Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2009). “Dragons of the Hourglass Mage: Lost Chronicles, Volume Three”, p.185, Wizards of the Coast

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.23, Penguin