Failure

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  • Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
        Frederick Buechner   Best?
  • I'd like to be the person I could have been but never was.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Trying is the first step towards failure.
        Homer Simpson   Best?
  • To fail to plan is to plan to fail.
        Robert Wubbolding   Best?
  • Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated
        Allphonse de Lamartine   Best?
  • Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once.
        Unknown   Best?
  • The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.
        Unknown   Best?
  • If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
        Calvin Coolidge   Best?
  • Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.
        Yiddish proverb   Best?
  • Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.
        Plato   Best?
  • Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.
        Trey Parker and Matt Stone   Best?
  • There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • You can always turn your back on a person, but you can never turn your back on a drug... especially when it's waving a hunting knife in your eyes.
        Hunter S. Thompson   Best?
  • Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
        CS Lewis   Best?
  • I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
        Aesop   Best?
  • He who isn't busy being born is busy dying.
        Bob Dylan   Best?
  • Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.
        Andy Warhol   Best?
  • CLARIONET, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet -- two clarionets.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
        Plato   Best?
  • A person's a person, no matter how small.
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.
        Donald Trump   Best?
  • When life hands you a lemon, say 'Yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got?'
        Henry Rollins   Best?
  • It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • She is the least benightedly unintelligent organic lifeform it has ever been my distinct lack of pleasure not to have been able to avoid meeting.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
        Anton Chekhov   Best?
  • Lust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst.
        Frederick Buechner   Best?
  • Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.
        Plato   Best?
  • When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, look to those, who have been given less.
        Prophet Mohammed   Best?
  • We're like actors, turned loose in this world to wander in search of a phantom, endlessly searching for a half formed shadow of our lost reality. When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder. The most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.
        Jim Morrison   Best?
  • The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
        E. M. Forster   Best?
  • Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?

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