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Letter "F" » failings
«At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings»
«It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.»
«At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings»
«In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
| About:
Audiences,
Elderly
| Keywords:
audiences, failings, kicked, limelight, smarter, The Dog, The Limelight, thrown, villain, villains
«Her heart--is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of. . . .»
«He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.»
«All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| Keywords:
admiration, deemed, failings, Gods Themselves, Human sacrifice, regrets, sacrifices, stresses, temptations, They Live, The Gods Themselves, The Limit, This Man, to the limit
«Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
attentions, despised, disliked, failings, liked, neglected, nothings, respected, The General, trifles
«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.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
community, failings, favor, journalism, notwithstanding, uneducated
«Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliate the other's failings because they are his own.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Friends
| Keywords:
failings, palliate, palliated, palliating, similitude
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