#failure

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#been #clear #failure #going #gone

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe. ↗

— Henry Miller

#elsewhere #embraces #failure #front #here

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#belong #contradictions #each #european #european union

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies? ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

#failure #likely #material #might #operation

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#everybody #failure #i #key #key to success

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#failure #hope #ideology #journalism #joy

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#also #capitalism #failure #happen #idea

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America. ↗

— Barack Obama

#action #am #america #carried #convinced

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#compelled #did #failure #fear #fight

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now. ↗

— Mike Peters

#big #breaks #chewed #failure #getting