Fails Quotes

I'm a little bit of an eternal optimist. People always say to me, 'If you go do this and it fails, what are you going to do?' I don't care. I'm going to give it my best shot. That's what I'm going to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And I'll try again. Jamie Dimon
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In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At that time, I stated that the qualifications essential for evaluating a nominee for the bench included 'integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.' On that test, Elena Kagan fails. John McCain
Time Character Integrity Legal Experience Opportunity First Advice Bench Stated Philosophy Temperament Ability Had Fails Qualifications Supreme Nominee Supreme Court Court Judicial Test Provide Essential Evaluating Included Competence Consent
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion. John Ortberg
Our Minds Way Diversion Through Mere Fails Exercise Stimulation External Amusement
We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives. Kathleen Troia McFarland
War Peace Resume Win Win Or Lose Lose Beginning Down Think Society State Temporary Something Lay Factions Fails Over Arms Affairs West Normal End Middle Happens Us Warring Lives Default Position
It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God. Michael Leunig
God Easter All-Powerful He Failed Fails Like Most His Human Jesus Humans
Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails. Nick Vujicic
God Peace Sometimes Promises Our Ourselves Never Remind Fails Praying Even Keep Basis Need
We will fail God, we will fail our family, and our family might fail us at times, but God never fails us. Nick Vujicic
God Family Will Our Never Fail Fails Times Might Us
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. Pearl S. Buck
Life Our Way Fails Child American Us American Way
Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards. Peter Tork
Music You Too Late Become Energy Too Late Musician Put Fails Dentist Accountant Afterwards Then
Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride. Aaron Koblin
Ride World Internet Else Addictive Everything Everything In Moderation Say Physical Physical World Inspiration Take Fails Beware Particularly Source Ultimately Moderation Which Bike Your Medicines Sofa
Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails. Abu Bakar Bashir
Will Leader State Later He Firmly Fails Likewise Account Same Any Afterlife Enforce Held
If all else fails, birdie the last. Adam Derek Scott
Birdie Else Fails Last
Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq. Ahmed Chalabi
Politics Government Sectarian Fails Votes Iraq Gets
The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values. Ai Weiwei
World Values Stage Spend Enter Willing Shanghai Fails Global Accept Understand How How Much Effort Just Beijing While China Much Show Universal Desires Olympics
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. Albert J. Nock
Knowledge Business Society Unless Enterprise See Only Indispensable Noble Fails Well Exist Itself Goes Useless Useless Knowledge Apparently University Conservation
VCE exams do not showcase students' abilities. By this, I mean that the system fails to recognise the diversity of skills, and most subjects do not allow students to demonstrate skills in a form other than a written exam. Alexandra Adornetto
Diversity Other Recognise System Ability Exam Exams Allow Students Written Fails Most Demonstrate Subjects Than Form Mean Skills Showcase
For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution. Alice McDermott
Faith Me Characters About Having Attack Part Fails Institution Talk Without How Either Them Then Who Works
It fails everybody, pretty much, the American Dream, but people are driven by it. I don't think we're driven by the same sense of hope in Europe. We're driven by pessimism more. Andrew Haigh
Hope People Sense Think Everybody Dream Pretty More Driven Fails American Same American Dream Much Pessimism Europe
If the euro fails, Europe fails. Angela Merkel
Fails Euro Europe
There was this real fear in doing 'Square Pegs' after getting such a fast ride to glory on 'Saturday Night Live'. I was afraid that the word would be 'peaks early, fails to live up to promise.' Anne Beatts
Ride Fear Word Live Promise Would Would-Be Fails Glory Real Doing Up Square Getting Afraid After Fast Saturday Peaks Saturday Night Saturday Night Live Early Night
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Anthony Burgess
Needs Mistake Try Country Sense Unless Frankly Temper Admit Above Something Take Fails Demands Another Method Persistent Common Experimentation Common Sense Bold
We buy a copy of 'Gravity's Rainbow,' say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word 'copy' fails. Because what I experience when I read 'Gravity's Rainbow,' or 'Beloved,' or 'The Moviegoer,' is not at all a 'copy' of what you experience when you read the same novel. Anthony Doerr
Buy Home You Experience Word Fall Our Say Carry Open Fails Read Because Same Novel Rainbow Gravity Here Copy Beloved
With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails. Anthony Mackie
Law Else Recognized More More Than Anything Never Fails Still Than Get Done Order Anything Anything Else Movies Episode
A man who fails is funny... if my sketches teach anything, it is that, for the male, sex is a snare and a delusion. What's so corrupting about that? Benny Hill
Funny Man Sex About Delusion Fails Male Snare Anything Sketches Teach Who
You shouldn't be trying to create a system where no bank fails, but you should be creating one that catches a bank and allows it to fail without impacting the financial markets. Bob Diamond
You Financial Markets Financial Markets System Fail Fails Without Trying Bank Where Create Creating Should
I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails. Bruce Johnston
You Record Emotionally Fails Up Hang Mean Your
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