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“Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.”

Writing Wells Enough Seems Literature Realizing Failing One Thing Depends

Book:Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.”

Men Sometimes Politics Chance Power Failing Events Hair Depends Increase Profit Neglect Great Events

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way— 'Tis first He steps upon the Vane— And then — upon the Hill— And then abroad the World He go To do His Golden Will— And if His Yellow feet should miss— The Bird would not arise— The Flowers would slumber on their Stems— No Bells have Paradise— How dare I, therefore, stint a faith On which so vast depends— Lest Firmament should fail for me— The Rivet in the Bands”

Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them

“A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist

“Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.”

Want Failing Produce Depends Benevolence Politeness Disagreeable

Book:A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Source: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“The educational process should not be one of homogenizing. It should be one of encouraging excellence... when we fail to make financial aid depend upon performance, we eliminate the incentive to excellence.”

Should Process Education Failing Depends Performances Excellence Financial Educational Aids Incentives Financial Aid

Author:John H. Sununu

“If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God.”

Ifs Reason Feelings Practice Plans Failing Depends Intention Rely Reasoning Sincerity Good Intentions Gift From God Presence Of God

Book:Prayer for Beginners

Source: Prayer for Beginners

“The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends on us. Our nation - this generation - will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.”

“I think a lot of longevity, especially as a performer, depends on kind of what your commodity is. If your commodity is your cuteness and your chubby cheeks and your big gap between your teeth, if that's what your greatest asset is, of course that fails or that changes, you know, that goes away. Of course that fades.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Kind Bigs Courses Failing Depends Teeth Gaps Assets Performers Fades Cheeks Longevity Commodity Cuteness Chubby Cheeks

Author:Fred Savage

“We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going to die, but they would never say that movies will die with it, when in fact all forms depend on the narrative. I think if one of them fails, the others are going to fail as well. Maybe this will happen to both forms, and maybe movies will take a totally different direction with fiction.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Different Facts Happens Form Used Dies Fiction Technology Novel Know How Failing Depends Narrative Different Directions

Author:Don DeLillo

“It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.”

Ifs Important Vision Creative Failing Depends Doomed Creative Vision

Author:Cliff Martinez

“It is true that the faith, which I am enabled to exercise, is altogether God's own gift; it is true that He alone supports it, and that He alone can increase it; it is true that, moment by moment, I depend upon Him for it, and that, if I were only one moment left to myself, my faith would utterly fail.”

Ifs Moments Left Support Failing Depends Exercise Increase That Moment

Book:Answers to Prayer From George Müller's Narratives (Start Classics)

Source: Answers to Prayer From George Müller's Narratives (Start Classics)

“If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.”

Ifs Effort Failing Depends Amount Succeed Peaceful Resolve Endeavor Great Future

Author:Akio Morita