#failed

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#after #canada #consequence #did #emigrate

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#candle #disappeared #failed #kidnapped #prison

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#affairs #after #be happy #challenge #chiefly

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#calling #countrymen #failed #good #good opinion

My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns! ↗

— Randy Castillo

#best #bring #failed #greatest #imagination

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely. ↗

— Ava Gardner

#failed #i #i always #i think #loved

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled. ↗

— William Goldman

#broadway #by the time #failed #fled #had

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#certainly #due #failed #i #imply

I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler. ↗

— Bob Seger

#i #quarterback #runner #track

The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#europe #even #failed #had #kyoto