#ails

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#communicate #emotion #fails #feel #had

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#else #fails #print #web

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#finding #jacket #nixon #out #tails

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#decide #demands #fails #government #listen

I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#beer #down #girl #guy #having

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#despise #entails #go #i #i see

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ↗

— George Santayana

#experiment #fails #happiness #lamentable #life

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#details #distinguish #hard #hear #once

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

#against #application #argument #being #conclusions

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ↗

— George Saunders

#beloved #constant #culture #details #exaltation