Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile. . . . Never fails.
Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.
Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.
When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
Everything that fails brings you closer to what works.
Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.
I won't do a reunion tour unless my solo career fails miserably.
A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible. . . If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.
It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave. As it is to the advantage of society that the whole of its faculties should be employed, the construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity which never fails to appear in revolutions.
Don't sugar-coat results. Don't make yourself look good when your strategy fails. Don't make others look good if their strategy failed.
Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?
And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.