Failing Quotes
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By refusing to implement the women’s contracting program and repeatedly failing to meet required contracting goals, this administration is undermining virtually every existing opportunity for women business owners to break into the the good ol’ boy ne...
Senator John Kerry
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Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.
James Q. Wilson
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Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.
Byron R. White
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Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption
Samuel Johnson
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you`re not failing every now and again, it`s a sign you`re not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen
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I lucked out when I started to sing. I`d already experienced failing at everything else
Cyndi Lauper
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You know what `FAILING` stands for? It stands for `Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.`
Gary Busey
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Oh, well. At least I won`t have to lose to Cher. (after failing to receive a best actress nomination for The Whales of August)
Lillian Gish
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There`s something to be said for failing. It`s not the failure you feel, it`s the failure that people project when something disappoints. You`re back to ground zero, where there`s no expectations, and that`s where I like to be. People like to set the bar ...
Kevin Smith
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[After failing to win the Best Actor Oscar for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)] The best way to survive an Oscar is to never try to win another one. You`ve seen what happens to some Oscar winners. They spend the rest of their lives turning down scripts while sea...
John Wayne
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I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nu...
Stanley Kubrick
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And I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions...the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. (Italian Vogue)
Colin Firth
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[on failing to win an Oscar after her fourth nomination] I guess I`ll remain a bridesmaid for the rest of my life.
Agnes Moorehead
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You can certainly go back to any number of stories - early coverage of Vietnam, the Holocaust - to show the press failing to tell the story.
Daniel Okrent
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
Alyaksandr Milinkevich
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Wisconsin`s kids shouldn`t be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.
Jim Doyle
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While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
Allan Kline
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When I`m winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people`s eyes, it made it all the more interesting!
Bob Mould
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We`re failing when it comes to controlling spending.
Alois Fabry
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We`re failing our children with education, we`re failing our environment.
Alan Burton
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We`re failing our children with education, we`re failing our environment.
Alan Burton
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We need to figure out why our public education system is failing to ignite the learning process in some of the poorest students, ... When it comes to education, people want silver bullets, they want magic tools, and technology sure looks like that magic b...
Ann Alexander
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We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.
Alice McGrew
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Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
Avery Neumark
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Through him wickedness shall be overcome, hatred, enmity, strife, poverty, and war abolished. This will be accomplished only by a slow but never-failing process of changing men`s mental and spiritual attitude.
Alan Seeger
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This complaint is brought by Don Ide, someone who was never available to give care, comfort or necessary help to Henry and Marion Ide during approximately 10 years of failing health, ... He would visit one to two times a year and now he comes looking for ...
William Stevenson
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There`s nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I`ve failed out here plenty.
Trent Dilfer
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There`s been a cultural change, a perspective that merging with another company or being acquired by an outside company is no longer a sign of weakness, or of business failing somewhere along the line. It`s more of a realization that it`s part of growth i...
Ashutosh Chilkoti
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There can be stresses. `I don`t want to see the look of disappointment in my children`s faces. Is it my fault?` The sense that I`m failing my wife, my children.
John Young
