Quotes & Sayings About Failure By Famous Personalities

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world - of all living things. The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is at hand. Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have. — John Steinbeck

The only magic that's left in the world right now is the magic that we make ourselves, deliberately. You're not going to stumble over enchantment by chance. You have to be open to it, looking for it, and when you first think you might have glimpsed it, you have to will it into your life with every machination available to you. — Megan Lindholm

...we are on the road from no A to no B in the world... — J.M. Coetzee

There are errors in this book. I do not know where they are. If I did they wouldn't be there. But with close to two hundred thousand words my probabilistic mind tells me some are wrong. — Alan Greenspan

THE TROUBLE WITH DYING By Maggie Le Page — Maggie Le Page

I have been ...
To every depth of my heart
To every height of my mind
To every extent of my world
I see only one name
It's yours ... — Heenashree Khandelwal

Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive. — Lauren DeStefano

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up. — Kris Allen

The Way to do is to be. — Lao-Tzu

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. — Peter Zumthor

Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long ... — Anne Sexton

Sometimes the words that are left unspoken are the ones that most needed to be said. — Vi Keeland