Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. Sarah McLachlan on failure
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. Dave Matthews on 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 on failure
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. B. C. Forbes on failure
Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure. Jennifer Lawrence on failure
Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure. Charles Schumer on failure
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. Edward Bach on failure
You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed. Niklas Zennstrom on failure
I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure. Ron Perlman on failure
Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers. Ayelet Waldman on failure
We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people. Mira Sorvino on failure
I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business. David Walliams on failure
We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself. Rupert Everett on failure
I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me. Paul Feig on failure
I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it. Alexander Payne on failure
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. Xavier Becerra on failure
Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change. Jeff Goodell on failure
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment. Chris Hedges on failure
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure. Ben Okri on failure
Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship. Trisha Yearwood on failure