Quotes 621 till 640 of 10439.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
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A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.
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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
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A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
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A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
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A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
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A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
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A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
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A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.
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A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal succes.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
Source: The Feminine Mystique Ch. 1 The Problem That Has No Name
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