Failing Quotes - Page 48

If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were.

Business cannot succeed in a world that is failing.

Arm chair warriors often fail.

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

Class has always been a staple of British comedy. We've always been able to laugh at it. When British shows are translated to America, the absence of the equivalent class structure there often causes them to fail. But over here we've always got comic mileage out of it.

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

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.

The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.

Death haunts everyone and never fails.

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

Even if the effort is bound to fail you still commit completely. It is the commitment that counts for something.

What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.

Facebook does social really well, but continues to fail at community.

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.

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.