There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?

A careful inspection showed them that even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing or having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody. I'm not doing that now so I feel really good about myself.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things and I have succeeded fairly well.

I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God and when he feels he has succeeded he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.

Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government faith and family and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.

I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

I very much wished not to be noticed and to be left alone and I sort of succeeded.

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.