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
Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
Mother Teresa
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Paul Tillich
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
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure
William Saroyan
Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
Michael Crawford
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee Williams
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
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Al Gore
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
Max Beerbohm
I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything.
Raymond Blanc
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing
Warren Miller
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of oneself.
Charlie Chaplin
I always turn to the sports section first... the front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren
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
For people in Brazil, failure in the World Cup was not an option. But we failed.
Ronaldinho
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
Eric Hoffer
Destiny - A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
What we have seen is an effort to emulate the Blair era, but a failure to do so.
Sir Menzies Campbell
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Lao Tzu
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
It's worse than losing a war - a national crisis of the highest magnitude. [on the World Cup failure 1974]
George Wigg
Trying to integrate oneself and ones family with a community like that is something that is always ultimately destined to failure.
Christopher Gist
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Susan Sontag
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.
Louis Boone
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
Agatha Christie
Gordon Brown and his 'new' Cabinet cannot escape the last 10 years. Labour's failures are their failures too.
Sir Menzies Campbell
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert Schuller
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
Tommy Lasorda
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. - Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
J P Getty
There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.
Craig Breedlove
I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.
Carly Fiorina
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