There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecrating... their lives, failure is impossible!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits--like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing b...eautiful women, flying thought the stratosphere or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits--involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding--inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, a Roosevelt can feel themselves to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, a Blake. Understanding is for ever unattainable. Therein lies the inevitablility of failure in embarking upon its quest, which is none the less the only one worthy of serious attention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in ...it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every reader of the French or German papers knows that not a day passes without producing some uneasy discussion of supposed socia...l decrepitude;Mfalling off of the birthrate;Mdecline of rural population;Mlowering of army standards;Mmultiplication of suicides;Mincrease of insanity or idiocy,--of cancer,--of tuberculosis;Msigns of nervous exhaustion,--of enfeebled vitality,--"habits" of alcoholism and drugs,--failure of eyesight in the young,--and so on, without end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a young man of Australia Who painted his ass like a dahlia.... The drawing was fine And the painting divine But the aroma--that was the failure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fifty years from now, it will not matter what kind of car you drove, what kind of house you lived in, how much you had in your ban...k account, or what your clothes looked like, But the world may be a little better because you were important in the life of a child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is as absurd to say that [due to motherhood] all women shall be denied the suffrage, as it would be to deny all men the suffrag...e, because some are liable, periodically, to inflammatory rheumatism, delirium tremens, or financial failure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yeste...rdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parents are never forgiven for not giving just the right response at the appropriate moment. Or, rather, there are particular time...s in the adolescent's or young adult's life, when a certain response is needed, and this need is not met, and the failure to meet this need is forever remembered, and is never forgiven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »