684 private quotes tagged failure

“Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.” — Phyllis Schlafly

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“The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.” — Hugh Grant

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“Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.” — Lee H. Hamilton

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“I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.” — Susie Orbach

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“I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.” — Shannen Doherty

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“Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.” — Thomas Haden Church

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“But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.” — Thomas Haden Church

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“Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.” — David Limbaugh

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“So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.” — Gavin DeGraw

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“A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.” — Charles Inglis

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“Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.” — Rosalind Russell

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“Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.” — Russell Pearce

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“The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.” — Alan Price

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“One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.” — Tammy Bruce

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“You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.” — Dave Van Ronk

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“So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.” — Allen Tate

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“We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.” — Zbigniew Brzezinski

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“I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.” — Bonnie Hunt

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“I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.” — Michael Baden

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“The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.” — Alan Hansen

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“My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.” — Laurence Housman

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“I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.” — Peter Berg

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“Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.” — Zach Wamp

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“Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.” — Matt Emmons

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“What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.” — Sonia Johnson

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