Best failing & lasts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society.”

Philosophy Lasts Party Behinds Class Struggle Failing Modern Criticism Tendencies Ideology Analysis Modern Society Scholasticism

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.”

Men Should Earth Lasts Hate Dies Fate Failing Tasks Deeds Boast Spun

Book:The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes

Source: The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes

“Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.”

World May Long Together Lasts Dies Language Lines Failing Poet Bounds Tongue Envy Vain Verses Prophecy Boast

Author:Edmund Waller

“The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that they may at last fail from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created”

May Long Lasts Nations Failing Danger Creation Institutions Characteristics Great Nations Comprehending

Book:The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot

Source: The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot

“Now, the whole world hears Or shall hear,--surely shall hear, at the last, Though men delay, and doubt, and faint, and fail,-- That promise faithful:--"Fear not, little flock! It is your Father's will and joy, to give To you, the Kingdom"!”

Men World Giving Littles Whole Lasts Joy Father Christianity Doubt Failing Promise Whole World Kingdoms Faithful Delay Flocks Fear Not

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Be mine that silent calm repast, A conscience cheerful to the last: That tree which bears immortal fruit, Without a canker at the root; That friend which never fails the just, When other friends desert their trust.”

Lasts Failing Tree Mines Bears Conscience Roots Silent Fruit Calm Desert Immortal Cheerful

Book:The Poems of Cooper, and Cotton

Source: The Poems of Cooper, and Cotton

“Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?”

Has Beens Book Moments Lasts Failing Written Pages

Author:Mary Ritter Beard

“It's only through effort that we learn what an idea actually is, and if our passion for it will last or fade. There is no shame in failure - all makers fail. But it's hard to respect someone who never tries, even once, to do something good that's always on their mind. If you're worried about how good your idea is, you're worrying about the wrong thing.”

Ifs Trying Mind Ideas Hard Lasts Passion Effort Worry Failing Shame Worried Makers Fades Wrong Things Respect Someone

Author:Scott Berkun

“A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.”

Ifs Whole Lasts Fall Failing Chains Links

Author:Chris Pratt

“As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal.”

“Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.”

Thinking Shows Lasts Failing Scared

Author:Jerry Bruckheimer

“No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me... I alone am to blame, in perhaps expecting too much of its prowess and valor... could I have foreseen that the attack on the last day would fail, I should certainly have tried some other course... but I do not know what better course I could have pursued.”

Knows Should Lasts Courses Too Much Failing Army Blame Accomplish Expecting Pursued Valor Last Day Prowess Foreseen Expecting Too Much

Author:Robert E. Lee

“The challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond is quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced. And-whether we succeed or fail-it is probably the last challenge we will ever face.”

Important Might Lasts Faces Humanity Challenges Failing Succeed

Book:Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Source: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

“Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.”

Knows Want Years Lasts Pleasure Know How Plans Failing Minutes Dog Fool Twenties Supreme Planning Cunning Last Minute

Author:Wallace Stegner

“Those on the left who scream about income gaps choose to focus on the success of those at the top rather than the failures of those at the bottom. They conveniently ignore that liberals are the ones who have pushed the moral relativisim and welfare-state dependence that has destroyed black families over the last 60 years. And it is these same liberals who fight to keep low-income kids in failing public schools and fight efforts to get school choice.”

“I learned very quickly that if you just go out and make something and maybe fail at it or you just learn how to edit it yourself. I edited my last films. You just do it yourself. You feel so creatively empowered and you're controlling your own destiny as artists.”

Ifs Feels Lasts Film Artist Destiny Failing Empowered Just Do It Edits Do It Yourself Edited

Author:Daryl Wein

“One nation banking recognises that banks must not be isolated from the rest of the economy. Because banks and small businesses must succeed or fail together, banks must lend to small businesses so we can get the growth and jobs we need for the future. As things stand, that is not happening enough. Lending was down £10.8billion last year.”

Needs Years Enough Together Jobs Lasts Nations Growth Economy Failing Succeed Happenings Isolated Last Year Banking Small Business Recognise Lending

Author:Ed Miliband

“Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.”

Way Mean Lasts Failing Cry Baby Cleaning Resorts Express Yourself

Author:Aristotle

“It's something that people who read my materials have asked me in the past. If you don't have principles - the last chapter of the book ["Win"] is all about winning with principles. It's all about applying words to good things, good people, good efforts. Without that inherent accuracy, then even the best words will still fail.”

People Ifs Stills Book Lasts Past Winning Effort Principles Failing Materials Good Things Good People Chapters Inherent Accuracy

Author:Frank Luntz

“China spends a lot of resources and effort on gaining soft power over culture. The hope is that it can be the last lifeline for the Party's survival. Obviously, the idea will fail.”

Ideas Lasts Culture Party Effort Failing Survival Resources China Lifelines

Author:Ai Weiwei

“The recent AP poll that came out last month said that approximately 90% of the American people felt that the two-party system was failing us in the presidential election.”

People Said Two Lasts Felt Party Failing Months Election Presidential Polls Presidential Election Two Party System

Author:Jill Stein

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