Failure To Conceive Quotes

#1. The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions.

Ludwig Von Mises

#2. I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

Thomas Jane

#3. Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

Thomas Carlyle

#4. What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

Charlotte Bronte

#5. She wanted her own time her own life her own set of eyes.

Jasmine Sandozz

#6. At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar's last breath.

Arthur Compton

#7. Nearly all of us have a deep rooted wish for peace-peace on earth; but we shall never attain the true peace-the peace of love, and not the uneasy equilibrium of fear-until we recognize the place of animals in the scheme of things and treat them accordingly.

Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

#8. The responses of the baby monkey are very similar to those of a human baby.

Harry Harlow

#9. Witches are liberated from their own fears and limited thinking. In turn, their presence has the power to liberate and consciously expand others.

Dacha Avelin

#10. I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

Joan Sutherland

#11. I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

Keith Miller

#12. I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'

Jerry Saltz

#13. Our servants (weaker nations) are becoming our masters. You have my word: As long as there is life in me, I will spend the rest of my days fighting to restore the lost sovereignty of the United States ...

Pat Buchanan

#14. No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made by circumstances, and not by my volition, a candidate for the Presidency till I was dismissed from that station by the failure of my election.

John Quincy Adams