#fail

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance. ↗

— Benny Goodman

#failing #life #lose #losing #music

Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed. ↗

— Al Gore

#dumping #effective #environment #failed #feel

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#east #failure #feudalism #frustration #history

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share. ↗

— Steve Harvey

#experiences #failure #got #great #i

The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#basic #failures #keep #made #makes

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment. ↗

— Chris Hedges

#dissect #failure #installment #leaves #next

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#failure #interested #man #old #old man

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#christmas #completely #fails #had #kind

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#angry #bear #drink #dust #eternity

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure. ↗

— Simon Hoggart

#failure #just #success #success is #training