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Failure

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater – why the better it is for all of us. – Jerome Lawrence

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible. – Seth Godin

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure. – Jeremy Irons

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing. – Jimmy Carr

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed. – Theodor Herzl

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation. – Adam Schiff

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure. – Sydney Pollack

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. – Phyllis Schlafly

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor. – Hugh Grant

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered. – Lee H. Hamilton

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure. – Gavin DeGraw

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. – Charles Inglis

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. – Sidney Hook

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. – Rosalind Russell

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. – Alan Price

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us. – Tammy Bruce

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman. – Allen Tate

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. – Zbigniew Brzezinski

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success. – Bonnie Hunt

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so. – Estelle Morris