A person is what his life is. Therefore, if he does not modify anything within himself, if he does not radically transform his life, if he does not work on himself, he is miserably wasting his time.
Unintended consequences, he thought miserably. He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up and took over.
During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.
Unless you learn to play a duet in the same key, to the same rhythm, a slow process of disengagement will wedge you apart, first secretly, psychologically, and then openly and miserably.
Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.
Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.
It’s a miserable story!” said Bruno. “It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief. ” “I haven’t got it with me,” Sylvie whispered. “Then I won’t cry,” said Bruno manfully.
You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.
I say, "go 'head Donald Trump bring it on" because this is the war to end all wars. No warmonger will live after this one jumps off. And the people that I'm looking at, they're no longer afraid of the big bad wolf. So you can bring your Mother Of All Bombs. You can bring everything you think you got to fight against God and the Original People of our planet but you will lose miserably.
It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.
As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. Mediocrity is not about failing, and it's the opposite of doing. Mediocrity, in other words, is about not trying. The reason is achingly simple, and I know you've heard it a thousand times before: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
You haven't done the will of God when you have done it miserably.
Insecurity is failing the American people miserably.
The trade unions and the Labour Party. . . failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.
They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred.
Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [. . . ] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks and frauds. It has been so since the earliest days, and it will probably remain so until the end of time.
Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.
What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.
Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it over with.
