Actual Failure Rate

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

“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“In the deeper layers of the modern consciousness ... every attempt to succeed is an act of aggression, leaving one alone and guilty and defenseless among enemies: one is punished for success. This is our intolerable dilemma: that failure is a kind of death and success is evil and dangerous, is—ultimately—impossible.”
—Robert Warshow (1917–1955)

“We honor motherhood with glowing sentimentality, but we don’t rate it high on the scale of creative occupations.”
—Leontine Young (20th century)