#failed

In fact, if you look upon the situation today, there is great division in the world and we have failed to capitalize on that unity to finish the job in Afghanistan and against al Qaeda. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#against #al #capitalize #division #fact

And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#better #early #failed #i #looked

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#cautiously #default #failed #failing #impossible

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ↗

— Allen Neuharth

#being #being afraid #down #failed #fall

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals. ↗

— Abu Abbas

#any #could #failed #goals #had

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#american people #door #failed #harry #harry reid

If you feel you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. ↗

— Robert F. Goheen

#failed #feel #feet #ground #level

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time. ↗

— George Sutherland

#carved #epitaph #failed #forth #freedom

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world. ↗

— William Allen White

#force #made #men #never #only

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#along #cleaning #deciding #exam #failed