pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer, the onion rings soggy. Looking around the place, though, I failed to spot a single customer banging on a tray or complaining to a waitress. So I shut up and finished my food. Expect nothing, get nothing.
I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and over again. What is essential, and also incredibly transforming, is realizing that we have the ability to begin again, without blaming or judging ourselves, without thinking we have failed, without losing heart, we can, and need to, constantly be beginning again.
I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.
The Obama experiment has failed.
What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers.
I was fired from my own television show, CBS's Family Law. It was the second time this had happened in my career, the first being when I was fired from The Facts of Life. I had been grateful to work in TV for so long but had always been chasing a career as a feature writer-director and had completely failed.
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised
I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.
Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed.
It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.
Egypt is going to be, potentially, a failed state if we don't help them.
I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave
The death penalty experiment has failed.
Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.