Failings Quotations

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.

Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man's failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay secret.

We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia - 'accidents.' Foreseeing such undesirable events is what engineers are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later forgotten.

Only the Liberal Democrats have probed the government's failings consistently, thoroughly and effectively.

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

I think it's one of President Bush's major failings as president, and I think it symbolizes a very disturbing approach to governing.

Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.

Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.

Listed literally dozens of things (the administration) did wrong. He acknowledged more institutional failings at the White House and elsewhere than we expected.

Today we have looked at some of our failings as a country and we have embraced the idea that we can improve, we can be better for all Canadians,

We have looked at some of the failings of our country and embraced the idea that we can improve,

The DCU Constantine has to be the guy we know and love, with his same failings - otherwise what's the point of using him? But as I'm writing him, he's younger and has perhaps been through a bit less than the battered, aging old sod we meet in Vertigo.

What the briefing did not answer is how these enormous failings could have occurred. We will not know the answer to these questions unless we subpoena the documents and the e-mails that the White House is refusing to supply.

The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.

Sometimes, when you look at an adviser's failings or perceived failings, I think the tough question you have to ask as a journalist is, 'What does this say about the president?'

As chief administrative officer, I have to take responsibility for the failings revealed.

It's a strange feeling to see one's books come up at auction and also, to some extent, a sign of my miserable early failings as an author.

It needs a firm hand at the tiller and someone who is really responsible for making these various groups work together, ... It is one of the big failings of the group to date since the merger with Daimler and Chrysler.

Clinton's personal foibles and failings have nothing to do with the fact that Al Gore went to a Buddhist temple to raise money and that his closest associates and fund-raisers were convicted of multiple felonies in regard to that event.

These are major failings over decades on the key criteria that matter over recognition,

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliate the other's failings because they are his own.

Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side.