"I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say"

-- Bobby Rahal

#Trying Quotes #Failing Quotes

“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.”
“all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.”

Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1875). “The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal”, p.3
“My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.”

Source : "What keeps Roddy rooted" by Nicci Gerrard, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2001.
“I too am a government.”
“Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.”
“Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you've shared food, or whom you've slept, even he can kill you with no trouble. The closest neighbor can kill you with his teeth: that is what I have Learned since the genocide, and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.”
“As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.”
“One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog"...The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog.”

Source : Michael Frayn (2016). “Collected Columns”, p.110, Faber & Faber

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