#failed

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know. ↗

— Russell Baker

#barack obama #because #change #clearly #day

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#children #elders #failed #good #imitate

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#destroy #failed #hated #hatred #immutable

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#because #even #failed #full #giving

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#american #american politics #condition #country #failed

My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#determined #escape #failed #first #having

I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that a white woman wrote it. Nobody said that to me, they just said, 'The Help - Oh my god, you've got to read it.' Everyone failed to mention it was a white woman, I think, because nobody really wants to talk about race. ↗

— Viola Davis

#because #book #everyone #failed #god

I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard. ↗

— Viola Davis

#because #becomes #done #failed #get

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#any #bring #bush #bush administration #comprehensive

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#been #centuries #change #democrats #enemy