#failed

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#does #failed #much #succeeded #takes

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

Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#class #failed-systems #greed #dreams

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#assign #beyond #continuing #entities #extensions

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#anything #barack #barack obama #before #country

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#bible #distresses #failed #give #give me

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#apparent failure #blessing #failed #failure #god

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#beard #beautiful #butterflies #failed #full

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#desire #did #discover #events #failed

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again. ↗

— George Takei

#achievements #again #also #certainly #country