“We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.” ThinkingKnowsTodayFailingFailureCostSucceedAwfulFrighteningIgnominy Author:Louis Kronenberger
“The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor.” WellsBusinessToo MuchNiceFailingBuildingAwfulBankersSplendor Author:Will Rogers
“We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister.” IfsMistakeGrowingFailingBlessingWorthyNeighborAwfulSettlingExpandingJerusalemSettlementPredecessors Author:David Ben-Gurion
“There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' to the awful, final act of suicide, that those who 'fail' at killing themselves not only are weak, but incompetent, incapable even of getting their dying quite right.” SuccessfulFailingDyingConceptsWeakSuicideKillingFinalsAwfulAssumptionIncapableIncompetentPuritanUnsuccessful Book:An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things. Some people distort it with sports, with money, with love, with art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayGivingPersonsArtEndsCertainSportsReligiousKnow HowFailingFunctionMeaningfulGravesAwfulMeaning Of LifeNonsenseMeaninglessLife Means Author:Woody Allen
“The world is full of men and women who work too much, sleep too little, hardly ever exercise, eat poorly, and are always struggling or failing to find adequate time with their families. We are in a perpetual hurry-constantly rushing from one activity to another, with little understanding of where all this activity is leading us. . . . The world has gone and got itself in an awful rush, to whose benefit I do not know. We are too busy for our own good. We need to slow down. Our lifestyles are destroying us. The worst part is, we are rushing east in search of a sunset.” KnowsMenWorldNeedsLittlesUnderstandingSleepStruggleGoneToo MuchFailingWorstExerciseActivityBenefitsMen And WomenBusyEastLifestyleAwfulSunsetDestroyingPerpetualSlow DownAdequateToo BusyRushing Author:Matthew Kelly