Unsuccessfully Quotes

#1. The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life

William Golding

#2. The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.

Jessica Lynch

#3. People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.

Amy Gerstler

#4. She now lost every expectation of pleasure. They were confined for the evening at different tables, and she had nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side of the room, as to make him play as unsuccessfully as herself

Jane Austen

#5. I've always been your friend, Alexa. Now go. I will try to kill you as unsuccessfully as I can.

Daniel Suarez

#6. It had always been Roth; from the moment he swaggered into that d- alley, where I'd been unsuccessfully fighting off a demon, it had been him for me. Maybe I'd been too blind to see that after he returned from the pits.
Maybe I had been too angry with him after the way he initially acted.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#7. Often people have an instant intuition that an action is immoral, and then struggle, often unsuccessfully, to come up with reasons why it is immoral.169

Steven Pinker

#8. You are so beautiful," he sighed into her hair.
She tried to check her girlish giggle, unsuccessfully. "Gray, it's dark as
pitch. You can't even see me."
"Even in the dark," he murmured against her skin. "You are the most
beautiful woman I've ever known, even in the dark.

Tessa Dare

#9. I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.

Ann Leckie

#10. Fellowship" is a Christianspeak for "flirt with unsuccessfully".

Kevin Roose

#11. Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.

Earl Nightingale

#12. When he realizes that Carmel's standing behind me, he quickly checks his face for drool and tries to smooth his hair down. Unsuccessfully.

Kendare Blake

#13. You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You feel that their power over you gives you a sensation of pleasurable torture, of pungent cruelty. This is a genuinely modern point of view.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#14. I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

Richard Eyre

#15. When these flies were put together in all-male groups they formed long, moving chains resembling conga lines, with each male attempting (unsuccessfully) to mate with the male in front of it.

Simon LeVay

#16. The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

Wallis Simpson

#17. Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

Aldous Huxley

#18. Had he ever lost his heart so much to something, had he ever loved any person thus, thus blindly, thus sufferingly, thus unsuccessfully, and yet thus happily?

Hermann Hesse

#19. A 2006 Senate Report on the intelligence gathered about Iraq before the war also concluded, "Postwar information indicates that Saddam Hussein attempted, unsuccessfully, to locate and capture al-Zarqawi and that the regime did not have a relationship with, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi.

Charles River Editors

#20. Israel expanded beyond its original boundaries only because the Arab powers attacked Israel and the U.N. demarcation unsuccessfully in 1948. The endless caterwauling about the 1967 borders is rubbish.

Conrad Black

#21. The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd.

Theodor Mommsen

#22. He felt his faith deeply, and above all out of doors, where the vaulted sky was his cathedral nave and the oaks its transept pillars: when faith failed, as it sometimes did, he saw the heavens declare the glory of God and heard the stones cry out.

Sarah Perry

#23. Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Carl Sagan

#24. How have we come to a place in society where millions of babies can be slaughtered and disposed of in the name of progress? Shocking but real.

Ravi Zacharias

#25. This is how a faerie loves: with her whole body and soul.
This is how a faerie loves: with destruction.
This is how a faerie loves: with a gift.

Cassandra Clare

#26. If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Benjamin Franklin

#27. When I think of the most able students I have encountered in my teaching - I mean those who have distinguished themselves not only by skill but by independence of thought - then I must confess that all have had a lively interest in epistemology.

Albert Einstein

#28. It's not about Indians, it's about people... the overall philosophy is to reconnect all people to nature and inevitably themselves. - Larry Stillday

Michael Meuers

#29. Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

Ida Tarbell

#30. Fight me as long as you're able.
You will find I have far more practice with eternity

Leigh Bardugo