- Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
- Mark Skousen on Failure
- Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
- Burt Rutan on Failure
- That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
- That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
- Berkeley Breathed on Failure
- The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
- Millicent Fawcett on Failure
- The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.
- The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
- Nigel Farage on Failure
- The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
- Ethan Hawke on Failure
- The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
- Barack Obama on Failure
- The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.
- James F. Byrnes on Failure
- The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.
- Anna Quindlen on Failure
- The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.
- Steven Moffat on Failure
- The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
- Toni Cade Bambara on Failure
- The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
- Dee Dee Myers on Failure
- The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
- Hart Crane on Failure
- The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
- Barack Obama on Failure
- The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
- Carol Moseley Braun on Failure
- The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
- Audre Lorde on Failure
- The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
- Carroll Quigley on Failure
- The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
- Mitch Daniels on Failure
- The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.
- Brian Harris on Failure
- The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
- Ben Stiller on Failure
- The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
- Karl Liebknecht on Failure
- The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
- Bob Woodward on Failure
- The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali on Failure
- The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.
- Ron Fournier on Failure
- The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
- Rosalyn S. Yalow on Failure
- The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
- Anna Garlin Spencer on Failure
- The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
- David Suzuki on Failure
- The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
- Chris Hedges on Failure
- The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.
- Allan Bloom on Failure
- The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
- Bruno Bettelheim on Failure
- The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
- Michael Korda on Failure
- The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
- Laurence J. Peter on Failure
- The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.
- Michael Mandelbaum on Failure
- The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
- Paddy Ashdown on Failure
- The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on Failure
- The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
- The hippy movement was a failure.
- Joe Strummer on Failure
- The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Failure
- The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
- Neal Boortz on Failure
- The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
- Elbert Hubbard on Failure
- The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
- Norman Cousins on Failure
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
- Edward Bach on Failure
- The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill on Failure
- The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
- B. C. Forbes on Failure
- The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes on Failure
- The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
- Annette Funicello on Failure
- The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
- Major Taylor on Failure
- The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
- Arthur C. Brooks on Failure
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