Best failing & would-be Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.”

“I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which I grew up was Texan and Southern, and it had many, many failings. I think I've gotten rid of most of the bad things in myself from that earlier age, but I don't adjust to the way things are progressing now.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Would Be Age Progress Failing Modern Grew Grew Up Tunes Bad Things Southern Sensibility Annoyed Texan

Author:John Graves

“If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish”

Ifs Would Be Found Church Failing England Parish Church Of England

Author:John Keble

“If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life--a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.”

Ifs Men Ends Would Be Young Failing Ears Tragedy Young Man If I Could One Word Doing Your Best Wasted Life

Author:Thornton T. Munger

“Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own moral and ethical failings honestly according to a secular code of right and wrong.”

People Use Would Be Faces Moral Failing Honestly Code Reasoning Ethical Secular Lexicon

Book:Exodus: A Memoir

Source: Exodus: A Memoir

“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error.”

Men Would Be Results Imagine Failing Errors Congress Etc Monstrous Defenders Encyclopedia Pascal Cromwell Montesquieu

Author:Lord Acton

“When I first thought about becoming Jane Austen I had to forget about the fear, or at least choose something else to focus on because it was becoming paralysing, I couldn't focus. I felt frightened, not so much by her fans' reaction to my performance but that I would be playing someone who I think is a legend, who I respect and admire so much. I didn't want to fail, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself.”

Thinking Want Firsts Would Be Felt Forget Focus Failing Fans Becoming Performances Pressure Reactions Admire Frightened Legends Jane Austen Playing Someone

Author:Anne Hathaway

“Its seems to me - it's likely that heaven's here right now. If you could take life with its pain and misery, where you fail and you sometimes win, and if you package it into a game, people would pay a fortune to have this game. And I don't know that I'd want it to be resolved so peacefully that the game would be all over.”

People Ifs Knows Want Sometimes Seems Would Be Pain Games Winning Heaven Pay Failing Atheism Right Now Misery Fortune Positive Atheism Packages

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.”

Ifs Whole Would Be Consciousness Moral Too Much Failing Risk Evolution Higher Appreciate Disappear Improvement Remedy Civilisation Torches Bankruptcy Higher Consciousness

Author:African Spir

“If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth.”

Ifs Should Self Problem Would Be Values Energy Democracy Taken Failing Discipline Leaving Substance Lacking Self Discipline Commonwealth Personal Problems

Author:Margery Wilson

“My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.”

Giving Writing Book Would Be Worry Pieces Failing Advice Permission Good Book Dont Worry

Author:David Levithan

“There was this real fear in doing Square Pegs after getting such a fast ride to glory on Saturday Night Live. I was afraid that the word would be peaks early, fails to live up to promise.”

Real Would Be Night Failing Promise Glory Squares Saturday Saturday Night Saturday Night Live Peg Square Pegs

Author:Anne Beatts

“I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.”

Mean Dream Reality Would Be America Night Winning Secret Race Failing Failure Winner Loser Every Night Rats Rat Race

Author:Donald Freed

“Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.”

Ifs Men Mind Littles Would Be Life Is Lying Natural Mistake Struggle Failing Heard Thousand Ideals Cows Beauty Of Life Backsliding

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“The more comprehensive and convincing a debt reduction program is, the less likely it is to fail. And remember, just as Germany is grateful to America for the Marshall Plan, Italy would be grateful to Germany for helping it lower its refinancing costs.”

Helping Would Be America Remember Plans Failing Cost Program Grateful Debt Germany Be Grateful Convincing Comprehensive Reduction Marshall Plan

Author:George Soros

“I started modeling because I thought it would be a good stepping stone for what I was studying (marketing), but since I started it I never had any intention to fail.”

Would Be Study Failing Stones Intention Marketing Modeling Stepping Stones

Author:Kylie Bax

“A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher”

Would Be Failing Comfort Angel Ministers Preacher

Author:John Newton

“A single assembly will never be a steady guardian of the laws, if Machiavel is right, when he says, Men are never good but through necessity: on the contrary, when good and evil are left to their choice, they will not fail to throw every thing into disorder and confusion. Hunger and poverty may make men industrious, but laws only can make them good; for, if men were so of themselves, there would be no occasion for laws; but, as the case is far otherwise, they are absolutely necessary.”

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I

“This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since... I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies.”

People World Has Beens War Would Be Causes Enemy Failing Tests Machines Justification Love One Another

Book:Jayber Crow: A Novel

Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel

“Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination.”

Ifs Problem Would Be Jobs Failing Duty Tough Determination Corruption Seriousness Sampling

Author:Lal Bahadur Shastri

“Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is parliament that is failing to provide good value for money.”

Thinking Would Be Values Failing Members Lazy Forgiven Parliament Mps Good Values

Author:Margaret Hodge

“The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.”

Thinking Feels Would Be Given Audience Failing Havens Appreciation Performers Adulation

Author:Michelle Shocked

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