#fail

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#certain #conspicuously #course #deter #deterrence

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#arguably #failed #important #most #objective

The inevitability of gradualness cannot fail to be appreciated. ↗

— Sidney Webb

#cannot #fail #inevitability

I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#exclude #fail #how #i #justify

If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration. ↗

— John Dingell

#being #congress #disclose #does #facts

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. ↗

— David Dinkins

#comply #crime #did #fail #haven

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#career #commons #completely #course #distinct

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail. ↗

— David Duchovny

#equally #fail #must #never #notion

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#character #construct #does #fails #his

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature. ↗

— Rita Dove

#adversity #almost #begin #being #convey