The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
You always pass failure on your way to success.
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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.
It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.
As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.
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.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
There were plenty of reasons to suspect Obamacare might have been a colossal failure - although none of them had to do with death panels, huge lines for treatment, a government takeover of health care, etc.
AIG's failure revealed systemic problems in the OTC derivatives market that went well beyond the failure of a single market participant.
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.
