#failed

This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#each #failed #happily #live #multicultural

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#action #against #bin #bush #chief

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. ↗

— William Nicholson

#after #among #another #because #business

It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#achieved #ammunition #brand #failed #grasp

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go. ↗

— Richard Perle

#been #central #changed #culture #director

I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#failed #going #had #i #kept

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#ever #every #failed #failure #i

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust. ↗

— Simon Raven

#charity #disgraced #each #failed #fine

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#brought #failed #our #poems #readers

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works. ↗

— Peter Shumlin

#cost #designing #failed #health #health care