As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.
We need only take our heads out of the sand to see clearly that interventionism not only has failed to provide the promised something-for-nothing, but has led to all sorts of undesirable consequences. Indeed, many are just beginning to realize that we are moving towards disaster even though we have been on a wrong heading for decades.
If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.
. . . she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.
I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.
The worst. . . was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
In terms of driving, I actually don't have a driver's license, and it's kind of ridiculous. I've lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years and just have somehow managed to avoid taking the test, which I did last week and failed. I couldn't find the honker. I felt bad about it, but it's just a little bit embarrassing, I guess, to be in this film and not have a license.
I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave
The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good or not, was totally on me and I could accept that. It was entirely mine.
Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.
I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.
A pear is a failed apple.
A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
A failed Iraq would make America less secure.
These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed; our country is strong.
After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.
The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious?