Failed Quotes

I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least I'd know that I tried.

If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.

We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried.

A lot of paparazzi wanted to be real photographers but they failed, and they did that instead, and it's not right; it's stalking.

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

The only person that is going to tell you that you can't do things in life are people who have failed.

During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do.

When I started out I was a failed actor.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today.

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed.

And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.

I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.

I don't like politicians who vacillate.

The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.

The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.