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“Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.”

Giving Children Turns Chance Failing Succeed Excuse Crush Halls Tigers Pianist Roaring Debut Carnegie Carnegie Hall

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.”

Turns Parent Poverty Failing Crime Policy Source Revolution Birth Neglect Birth Control

Author:Aristotle

“Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise?”

Ifs Thinking Stills Turns Leader Virtue Grace Failing Ideals Surprise Stupidity Compromise Beast Nonsense Fades Modesty Pale Antiquity Calendars Barricades Backsides

Author:Elvis Costello

“With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.”

Hands Turns Study Failing Example Humility Obstacles Indifference Guidance Warning Traps Blindness Hazards Confronting

Book:Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature

Source: Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature

“All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it.”

Way Film Turns Failing Couple Directors Cameras Execution Prerogative Edited

Author:Bruce Willis

“The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.”

Source: On Sir Francis Burdett's motion for parliamentary reform.-On the conduct of the war.-On the cry of the Whigs for peace, 1810.-Army and navy reforms, 1810.-On the economical reformers, 1811.-On the state of the poor.-The principle of Mr. Malthus's essay on population.-The manufacturing system, 1812.-On the state of the poor.-On the accounts of England by foreign travellers and the state of public opinion, 1816.-On the state of public opinion and the political reformers, 1816.-v.2 A letter to Will

“Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose.”

World Way Children Moving Mother Purpose Turns Can Do Support Failing Feet Danger Motherhood Streams Traffic Yards Highways Crowded

Author:Margaret Mead

“Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps treating you like a piece of fine china. The man who worships you in this way is not seeing you; he is seeing his fantasy, and when you fail to live up to that image he may turn nasty. So there may not be much difference between the man who talks down to you and the one who elevates you; both are displaying a failure to respect you as a real human being and bode ill.”

“I have no-fail chemistry. A guy turns me on, he's the wrong one for me.”

Guy Turns Failing Dating Chemistry Turn Me One For Me

Book:Snapshot

Source: Snapshot

“I still have my quickness, but I turn it on and off. I don't want to fail in anything I do and that's why I'm hard on myself.”

Want Stills Hard Turns Failing And Off Quickness

Author:Kenny Anderson

“The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture's dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.”

Turns Teacher Failing Students

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope.”

Turns Failing Groups Middle Couple Europe Meetings Nine Hotel Mutual Bedroom Thrilling Middle Aged Brussels

Author:E. P. Thompson