“The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.” StillsBeautifulYoungLife IsGrowsSidesImagineFailingTreeFlowerTasteFutureDegreesWasteFruitDisappearAdmireOpeningDesertButterflyPausesLife Is LikeLanesBleakTemptingYoung LifeBeautiful Butterfly Author:George Augustus Henry Sala
“I've failed a million times on stage. I've listened to notes that I knew weren't right. I've pitched ideas and let other people change them, knowing that it was the wrong choice. The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?” PeopleWayWantFeelsIdeasValuesChoicesAsksMillionsKnowingFailingStageTasteNotesWrong ChoicesValue Systems Author:Amy Poehler
“I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in music, in cooking, in movies, but in our own medium, poetry, we often fail to make allowances for tastes and projects other than our own.” ThinkingShouldTryingTermFailingPoetTasteDiversityProjectsAppreciateCookingWideMediumsAllowance Author:James Arthur
“A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.” MenPersonsTurnsLiteratureUnitedFailingTasteGreat Men Author:John Adams
“I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism; the fact is, however, that people die. Death happens to be one of life's main events. And it is irresponsible and more than that, inaccurate, for newspapers to fail to show it.” PeopleFactsShowsProblemHappensDiesFailingEventsTasteRaisesNewspapersCorpsesIrresponsiblePrintingSensationalism Book:Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media Source: Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
“This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.” InspirationalDoePlayTodaySongSunFailingDrinkTasteEternityShiningSmellThis DayEncouragingTaste And Smell Author:Hermann Hesse
“Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?” KnowsSaidFiveFailingTaughtTasteOkaySmellSensesPerceiveFive Senses Book:The Cardturner Source: The Cardturner