Quotes of Fiasco - somelinesforyou

“ Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. ”

- Henry Ross Perot

“ I am troubled by the assumption in the legislation that abortion services, as a matter of linguistics and a matter of law, cannot include discussing with a woman why she shouldn't have an abortion. ”

- Wendy Kaminer

“ I think that she would not want her daughter to be taken to a place to get an abortion without asking her because she's even more protective than I am about our children. ”

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“ Abortion is either OK or it's not. ”

- Peggy Noonan

“ I don't know what I would do now. ”

- Charles Kennedy

“ We are all failures — at least, all the best of us are. ”

- Sir James M. Barrie

“ Disappointments are to the soul what the thunderstorm is to the air. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. ”

- Katherine Mansfield

“ What found was systemic and catastrophic failure across the board,... Despite the magnitude of Enron's implosion, no one in the system that was supposed to protect investors saw the disaster coming or did anything about it. ”

- Joseph Lieberman

“ My perspective on the second Bush Administration is, that for all of his big talk, it's going to be a failure. He is not going to get out of Iraq with clear-cut victory or clear-cut reconstruction, during his second term. It's going to take longer, if at all… ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism. ”

- John Berger

“ Haiti is full of disappointments. ”

- Mike DeWine

“ Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder-storm is to the air. ”

- Friedrich von Schiller

“ Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. ”

- Bayle Roche

“ In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? ”

- G.K. Chesterton

“ The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures, but the one who turns failures to best account. ”

- Richard R. Grant

“ Failures are like skinned knees — painful, but superficial. ”

- Henry Ross Perot

“ Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. ”

- Robert Maynard Pirsig

“ I am opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions. ”

- Bill Clinton

“ There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. ”

- Orlando Bloom

“ There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker. ”

- Charles M. Schulz

“ I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion. ”

- Tony Campolo

“ War is a series of disasters which result in a winner. ”

- George Clemenceau

“ War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. ”

- Georges Clemenceau

“ I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody. ”

- Herbert Bayard Swope

“ I'm dissatisfied with the failure to look into their own failures, and I think both of them have to be seriously looked into. ”

- Carl Levin

“ The combined effect of all of these changes will be to make Hawaii one of the quickie-abortion capitals of the world. ”

- Judie Brown

“ Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion. ”

- Oriana Fallaci

“ Abortion as a political-slash-legal issue will be back. ”

- John Ashcroft

“ We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. ”

- Oscar Wilde
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