#fails

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#christmas #completely #fails #had #kind

I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails. ↗

— Bruce Johnston

#fails #hang #i #mean #record

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#alas #architecture #bad #come #comes

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#inward #judgment #never #often #outward

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#achieves #direct #direct result #fails #his

When all else fails, complicate matters. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#else #fails #matters #when all else fails

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. ↗

— David Antin

#fails #left #mark #may #oral

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#airplane #fails #few #gets #happens

War is what happens when language fails. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#happens #language #war

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

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