Logo
Quote by Carl Sandburg
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doome

All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure. – Carl Sandburg

Other quotes by Carl Sandburg

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Carl Sandburg

Category:
Time
Author
Carl Sandburg
Read Quote

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. – Carl Sandburg

Category:
Poetry
Author
Carl Sandburg
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Failure
category

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

Category:
Failure

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. – John Drinkwater

Category:
Failure

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.” – S.I. Hayakawa

Category:
Failure

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone. – Edmond H. Fischer

Category:
Failure

Random Quotes

Shake it ’til the moon becomes the sun. – Vada Nobles, Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers, and Alisha Brooks, "Pon de Replay,&#

Category:
Homecoming

In some cases nonviolence requires more militancy than violence. – Cesar Chavez

Category:
Violence

The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service. – Albert Einstein

Category:
War

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. – Henry James

Category:
America