After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.
No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.
True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.
The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear.
The shoulder surgery was a success. The lobotomy failed.
God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
Once youve changed who you are or who youve portrayed in your music, the fans, theyll catch it. . . Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
It wasn't until I'd met everyone else's measure of success that I realized I'd failed myself.
True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.
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.
Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.
It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.
All of human history is about the going from sudden fat years to the sudden lean years. We've always had good times and bad, and we've had ways of managing the bad times. We have ways of insulating ourselves, making ourselves less sensitive for the bad times by having things like grain stores, for example. Pretty much every civilization that's lasted for any reasonable length of time has some food management principles behind it. But what's been happening over the past thirty years is it's failed - the insurance policy.
How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.
I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.
The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.
If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.