Actual Failure Rate

Famous quotes containing the words actual, failure and/or rate:

    “Description is revelation. It is not
    The thing described, nor false facsimile.
    It is an artificial thing that exists,
    In its own seeming, plainly visible,
    Yet not too closely the double of our lives,
    Intenser than any actual life could be....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
    —William Faulkner (1897–1962)