“You work so hard to prevent something from happening and then it happens.”— Deanna Thompson, imdb.com
“It's just today I finally realized I was raised to be a failure.”— Mart Crowley, Donald, Matt Bomer, imdb.com
“It's the worse use of scissors since my failed vasectomy.”— Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche, David Quantick, Mike McLintock, Matt Walsh, imdb.com
“You might be demonstrating a failure to show appreciation.”— Steven Zaillian, Russell Bufalino, Joe Pesci, imdb.com
“Everybody has their trouble, and I’ve had mine. I just want what everybody wants. I just seem to have a harder time getting it.”— Tom Edge, Judy Garland, Renée Zellweger, imdb.com
“H. Clifford McBride: We need to find what science tells us is impossible. I can't have failed. Roy McBride: Dad, you haven't. Now we know. We're all we've got.”— James Gray, Ethan Gross, Roy McBride, Brad Pitt, imdb.com
“Luca Changretta: I'm Luca Changretta. Alfie Solomons: Oh yeah, I know who you are. You're a bit of a failure, aren't you? You come all the way over here in this country to kill Tommy Shelby, but... I mean, well, he's not dead, is he?”— Steven Knight, Alfie Solomons, Tom Hardy, imdb.com
“I've failed as a husband, and as a father, and that's the worst thing.”— Jed Mercurio, David Budd, Richard Madden, imdb.com
“I only know that I will never again trust my life, my future, to the whims of men, in companies or out. Never again will their judgment have anything to do with what I think I can do. That was the wonderful liberation of being divorced and having children. I did not mind failure, ever, but I minded…”— Toni Morrison, theparisreview.org
“Being entrepreneurial means you will fail. You just have to be willing to listen to people who tell you something is broken, and then fix it.”— Howard Schultz, amazon.com
“Policies have real-world consequences, regardless of how much we wish they don't. It's failure to cope with that basic fact that leads to so much of the finger-pointing we see in politics, with each side accusing the other of bad intention -- as though pointing out a policy's failure is equivalent t…”— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com
“There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.com
“Over the past few years I’ve done things I would never have had the gumption to do when I was younger, like take a Beyoncé dance class, or use the word “gumption” in an article that other, much-cooler individuals will read. But there’s true beauty in realizing no one is watching to see if you’ll fai…”— Meghan Nesmith, manrepeller.com
“I'm a meteorologist by training and a journalist by profession. For the past 12 years, I've focused every working day on understanding, explaining, and trying to alleviate the effects of climate change. Yet global carbon emissions are more than 20 percent higher now than when I started work as a cli…”— Eric Holthaus, sierraclub.org
“We’re all trying to be seen clearly. We want people to love us. We want to be understood. But as someone who’s been involved in that project and that trap for over a quarter of a century now (UNBELIEVABLE) I have to tell you that learning to give yourself these things is the greatest skill of all.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com