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" I fell off my pink cloud with a thud. "

Elizabeth Taylor

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" Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it. "

Sarah McLachlan

" The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" There's a lot of freedom in failure, and I can see that now. "

" There is no failure except in no longer trying. "

" Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. "

" If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. "

Rosalynn Carter

" No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe. "

" American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal. "

Elizabeth Taylor

" Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure. "

" I get this thing where people are like, 'Man, you got to tell me what to do' - like I have a cheat code to being successful. It's hard work; it's trial and error. I failed, but I never let failure get to my head or to my heart. "

" 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. "

" For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a godly person. Yet when I look at the yesterdays of my life, what I see, mostly, is a broken, irregular path littered with mistakes and failure. I have had temporary successes and isolated moments of closeness to God, but I long for the continuing presence of Jesus. "

" President Obama's greatest failure is his failure regarding foreign policy and national security. "

" Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. "

" Failure is a word that I simply don't accept. "

John H. Johnson

" A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. "

" If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices. "

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

" I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. "

" The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success. "

" Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode - the aftereffects of which still linger - has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society. "

Robert J. Shiller

" 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

" America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to. "

" But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. "

Ernest Hemingway

" Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed. "

" It is in our genes that we think of breaking up when we love and of failure and fall when we succeed. "

" It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. "

" Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure. "

" You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it. "