Home / Topics / Failing Quotes

Failing Quotes

Browse 5413 quotes about Failing.

Failing Quotes

“Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust.”

May Matter Facts Grows Imagination Failing Sea Style Truth Is Dust Worn Jewels Brighter One Woman

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles of that rude philosophy of sympathy and resemblance... to trace a subtle relation, a secret harmony, between its tides and the life of man... The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide is said to be held along the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent.”

Men Said Philosophy Happens Belief Secret Principles Failing Sea Flow Sight England Relation Harmony East Subtle Tides Impressed Rude Coast Resemblance East Coast Ebb And Flow Dwellers Kent

Author:James G. Frazer

“Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow, That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw: Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand, That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand, Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut. And if at first he fail, his second sommersault He instantly assays and from his nimble ring, Still yarking never leaves, Until himself he fling Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.”

Ifs Firsts Littles Doe Stills Ends Hands Failing Sea Feet Rivers Strive Casts Fishes Rings Teeth Boat Height Lakes Fishing Bows Tails Compass Fling Bending Wands Salmon Nimble

Author:Michael Drayton

“But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with a fly is no disgrace: your art may have been impeccable, your patience faultless to the end. But the philosophy of worm-fishing is that of results, of having something tangible in your basket when the day's work is done.”

May Has Beens Art Ends Done Philosophy Results Failing Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Worms Disgrace Tangible Baskets Impeccable

Book:Fishing with a Worm

Source: Fishing with a Worm

“No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.”

Men Needs Forever Failing Sea Effects He Man Absence Honestly Chains Compass Needles Magnet Pitiful Intervening

Book:The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

“The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself - In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable sdvice.”

Ifs Men Law Creative Failing Sea Advice Rocks Genius Comfortable Green Salvation Work Out Silly Tea Sensations Shore Ads Pipe Matured Quicksand Afraid Of Failure Watchfulness Endymion

Author:John Keats