Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded medical resources are stretched too thin other government services are overtaxed and taxes increase further.

So the poet who wants to be something that he cannot be and is a failure in plain life makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

Americans who make more of marrying for love than any other people also break up more of their marriages but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

I think I've always been somebody since the deaths of my father and brother who was afraid to hope. So I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

When you experience a failure as a leader don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations Clinton's mediation.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures and what they attribute to us as failure.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much you feel so guilty.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is that one is male and the other female.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do to save the people and the failure was not my fault but the fault of others.

For families across the UK who are income-poor but more than that whose lives are blighted by worklessness educational failure family breakdown problem debt and poor health as well as other problems giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

I believe in trusting men not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be a challenge to others.

Women like men should try to do the impossible. And when they fail their failure should be a challenge to others.

In Torch Song I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure which also colors how you react to doing other things.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not at one time or other find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Think twice before you speak because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.