Quotations
'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000
'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000
BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
-Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000
'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'
-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody
else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000
'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?' -Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.' -ibid
'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
George W Bush
Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco
Trying to integrate oneself and ones family with a community like that is something that is always ultimately destined to failure.
Christopher Gist
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
Sven Goran Eriksson
The fact is that we're too old to make each other miserable, and that's a good thing, not a bad thing, so don't take your failure to make the list personally. [High Fidelity]
Nick Hornby
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Mickey Rooney
When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair
George Osborne
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Robert E Lee
Never give up. Learning from failure is an essential part of the entrepreneur's experience
Rachel Elnaugh
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard
I wasn't afraid to fail.
Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter
Only one thing makes a dream impossible: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
Don Shula
When I was a young man I observed than nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn’t want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work
George Bernard Shaw
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
Roger Von Oech
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Kin Hubbard
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
Charlotte Whitton
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
Elbert Hubbard
All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure. [er, yes]
Alberto Giacometti
Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed
Gustav Mahler
The only risk of failure is promotion.
Scott Adams
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Rosalind Russell
'Failure to prepare. Prepare to fail.'
Roy Keane
I always turn to the sports section first... the front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren
We are all failures – at least the best of us are.
J M Barrie
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Tony Benn
Destiny - A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns
Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.
Harvey Mackay
In the publishing business you have to learn to greet failure with the same handshake as you would success.
Eddie Bell
Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
Matt Blunt
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
Dorothea Brande
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Al Gore
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin
For people in Brazil, failure in the World Cup was not an option. But we failed.
Ronaldinho
Most of us spend the first 6 days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Fred Allen
If you want to win the battle then you better have the better tanks, they can make the difference between success and failure in combat.
Heinz Guderian
May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
Patrick Blackett
There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.
Craig Breedlove
There is always time for failure.
John Mortimer
Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
Philip Caldwell
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