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101 " 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. "
102 " I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try. "
― Nikki Giovanni
103 " In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach. "
104 " Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks. "
105 " The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia. "
106 " A minute's success pays the failure of years. "
107 " There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. "
― Jillian Dodd , Kiss Me (The Keatyn Chronicles, #2)
108 " There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be. "
109 " I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. "
110 " The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold. "
111 " The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female. "
112 " Aging is mostly the failure to repair. "
113 " In fiction workshops, we tend to focus on matters of verisimilitude largely because such issues are so much easier to talk about than the failure of imagination. "
114 " Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions. "
115 " Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others. "
116 " There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. "
117 " Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine. "
118 " There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake. "
119 " Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. "
120 " In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection. "
