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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Vernon Howard

Death … It's the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Aldous Huxley

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Betty Friedan

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Virgin Blue has already succeeded; Air Asia has an impressive domestic share. I think ValuAir has a chance because the local market is very price sensitive. We could see them emerge in China once re-structuring has occurred. I give the market 6-18 months before we see success.

David Pettigrew

John Kerry has fought again and again to extend unemployment benefits for workers left behind in the Bush economy. The reason we haven't succeeded is because George Bush opposes extending unemployment insurance, and so do his allies.

David Wade

Only when the war propaganda of the victors is entered into the history books of the vanquished, (and this is also believed by succeeding generations), only then will our reeducation have succeeded.

Walter Lippmann

I was hoping they would get a sense of what it's like to create their own show. I also wanted them to think about how we're all connected -- that they're individuals, but they're connected to a larger community. I think they succeeded in doing both.

Deb Tyte

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.

Jacob Bronowski

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dale E. Turner

Our integrated marketing and retail strategy aimed to put the Guardian in the hands of as many people as possible and encourage them to re-appraise the paper. We succeeded. We look forward to the October ABC with confidence.

Carolyn Mccall

If we've helped one victim, we've succeeded in our journey. However, our journey doesn't end here. We've been dealt a life sentence. Now we must choose how to live it.

Lorraine Reed

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

Merle Shain

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

Joan Rivers

[The SPD] are taking steps away from the Agenda 2010 and inserting symbolic, leftist elements, ... If you look at it that way, the Left Party has already succeeded.

Uwe Andersen

I thought if we go close to 250 it could be a fighting total and we succeeded in getting close to it.

Kamran Akmal

The spirit Harley-Davidson signifies is the pursuit of freedom, the enjoyment of life. This is not just something special for the American people. Harley-Davidson has succeeded for 100 years. We hope China will continue that trend for another 100 years.

Hollis Zhao

Mike's very meticulous and organized because of his military background. He does things in an orderly fashion and he's succeeded wherever he's gone. He's very respected in this league, the consummate special teams coach.

Mike Pope

Maybe I need a new challenge. I remember when a France team-mate told me once, 'When you wear the AC Milan shirt, it shows you have succeeded'. That makes you think.

William Gallas

I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.

Dan Marino

(The coalition) succeeded in getting the court to order a fix-it ticket to the water board on a procedural issue. That will not affect their power to issue more of these rules in the future.

David Beckmann

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

W. Winwood Reade

We've succeeded by caring for folks. Our core values are to work hard, have fun and develop as human beings.

Rod Moyer

It gives a really wide range of experiences on how people succeeded and everyone's road is different.

Peter Casey

Arnold has succeeded at every level, and I believe he is the only person that can unite the people of this state and lead California from its current dysfunctional condition to the bright future that all residents long for.

Mary Bono

The Council succeeded in making things even worse than the European Parliament by weakening the registration of chemicals, the substitution principle and foreseeing even less information available for consumers.

Jim Murray (beuc)

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If anything, the films that succeeded this summer and the films that failed have emboldened me and filmmakers who share my sensibility that we don't want to just churn out the same old thing.

Doug Liman

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.

Orison Swett Marden

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

Miriam Beard

We succeeded in getting a compromise without letting this dispute contaminate a rather positive relationship.

Adrian Nastase

Just as we have succeeded in greatly increasing the company's profitability over the last five years, we are dedicated to improving our core growth rates by aggressively leveraging the technology position and installed base of each of our three business units. Our growth programs are poised to bear fruit in 1999 and 2000.

Michael Bonsignore

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.

John Hawkins

Now that they have succeeded in controlling cost inflation, this idea of privatizing Medicare opens up a whole new market.

Michael Obuchowski

When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded.

Laurie Anderson

San Diego represents this incredible assimilation of Jews in the society. When we survived the Holocaust, we wanted to just melt in so we couldn't be picked out again, and we succeeded.

Ken Bender

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

John Dryden

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.

Sir Arthur Eddington

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

Alfred Jarry

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Lloyd Jones

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe

If we can help people see that it's not just a race, that it's an opportunity to build life-long friendships, conquer challenges together and strengthen communities, then we think we will have succeeded.

Dan Hill

When you do that, The Gap declares victory. The Web site has just succeeded in getting you into the store.

Richard Jaffe

With AMD, we recognize that the controllers are getting bigger and more complex, integrated right onto the microprocessor. We took a hard look at that getting more expensive, and I think we succeeded in [offering] a more reasonable compensation.

Sharon Holt

It's a great deal for us, really perfect because people are already excited, thinking about Georgia, seeing an event happening in Georgia, a premiere event that gathers national attention. And if we can show them an ad that makes that connection that prompts them to look at our Web site and think of our state as a vacation destination then we've succeeded.

Bert Brantley

We've succeeded to get our hands on an important historical document that was so close to being lost and destroyed forever.

Mario Roberty

If they think they succeeded by killing him in getting people to forget about him, they have done just the opposite.

Barbara Becnel

We proceeded to start a professional theatre but not really knowing how to do it. As my mom said, 'The reason it succeeded is because we didn't know that we didn't know how to run a theatre.' Raleigh didn't have a strong professional theatre where you could see high-quality revivals. [Audiences] ate it up. We grew from there.

William Jones

I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.

Alan Greenspan

The available evidence suggests that generally, Qwest has succeeded in opening local telecommunications markets to competition.

Charles A. James

I'm good at a lot of things. Sex being one of them - so I think I've certainly succeeded at that.

Jenna Jameson

These guys gave up so much personal, and put team first. They gave everything they had as a team to make sure we succeeded. I've appreciated everything that they've given our program.

Ron Cottrell

Getting to Omaha, that's the ultimate goal. If I batted .100 and we made it there, then I would feel like I succeeded.

Brad Chalk

A huge winner if it succeeded.

George Stephanopoulos

Failure was never an option. You never gave up and kept trying until you succeeded.

Amrit Gill

The desire for freedom in China is as strong as ever before. The 1989 effort almost succeeded. The fact that it failed in 1989, the fact that the leaders - over 1,000 of them - were executed does not mean that one-fifth of the world's population wishes to be held under the thumb of communism forever.

Christopher Cox

It's important. When we started, we had Karim. We succeeded in the pitching [today] but failed on offense. We had an opponent who pitched us very aggressively.

Paquin Estrada

All we knew was we needed to speed the game up to have a chance. It's not like (Mitchell) can't run the floor, because they can. But it's what we do best and we had to get it going more. We just succeeded doing it better than them at the end.

Brandon Evans

It will be an uphill battle, but we've been fighting an uphill battle for the last three weeks. So far we've succeeded.

Gary Chapman

It's a matter of choice. But there's no substitute for being in class. Just as they have to spend a certain amount of time on the waves to attain a necessary level of skill, they also have to spend enough time in the classroom to attain a high level of knowledge. Sure, some people have succeeded in life without a proper education, but those are few and far between.

Sara Stern

We think they succeeded in two key objectives. One, setting a very positive tone that almost immediately reversed the negative post-fourth-quarter sentiment. Second, quite forcefully correcting and dispelling concerns over George Reyes' comments on growth and monetization from earlier in the week.

Ben Schachter

Independence Air worked really well here. They may have not succeeded nationally but we were in their top 10 cities and we were the largest city in their top 10 cities so our people supported it so well.

Becky Huckaby

To my knowledge, it has never succeeded that a terrorist group or any group could change the course of events in a country simply by activities that were meant to paralyze the population by inducing fear or anxiety.

David Barlow

In general, it (the study) appeared to have succeeded in gathering and combining a lot of different points of view. It's clear that there isn't a silver bullet to deal with some these issues, but there's potential for looking further into the viability of some of the ideas presented.

Lara Azar

Boy, we got a crowd, that's exciting. It's going to be exciting to see how they succeeded.

Mark Barth

We speak today of a women who over the course of time was able to represent her country with pride. She has fallen, recovered and succeeded.

Perry Christie

In 1989, we all knew that whoever succeeded Pete Rozelle would have big shoes to fill. Obviously, the same is true of the successor to Paul Tagliabue.

Bill Bidwill

Thanks to his attitude, his gestures and his speeches, Mr Harper has clearly succeeded in getting closer to Quebec since the January 23 election.

Claude Gauthier

Milosevic has been murdered in The Hague, but before that he succeeded in defending the national and state interests of Serbia and the Serbian people, which is why everybody should be grateful to him, since this is of great benefit to our future.

Ivica Dacic

Imagine going in knowing that no Mexican American before you had ever succeeded in a lead role.

George Lopez

It was very difficult championship. We are very happy we succeeded this time. It's a victory of all small countries.

Albena Denkova

He fought for this community, ... And whether he succeeded or not, whether each task he took on was successful or not, it was the fight that was important — that 'By God, I stood up for my community and fought for 'em, and I'll do it next time too.'

John Beal

New York is a very attractive and dynamic market. We have a very strong base in California, and we have succeeded in expanding into new market areas. New York has very high growth potential, and we will duplicate what we did in California.

Thomas Wu

We succeeded in changing the culture of fear. Before the president was half god, half president. Now he's just a man.

George Ishak

The idea of remotely monitoring and controlling catering equipment over the Internet isn't new. But nobody succeeded in doing it. Our plug-and-play software and hardware is a major step forward, with the potential to reduce cases of food poisoning in the European Union by more than 113,000 annually.

Stephen Read

Rehnquist thought [the court] had gone way too far, and in many dissents was working to cut it back. He succeeded, and he began to succeed even before he became chief justice. He gradually cut back federal-court supervision of state prosecutions. [The death penalty ban] was reversed. And the limits upon prosecutors and police were rationalized and relaxed.

Charles Fried

In novel after novel you have succeeded in making East and West meet, mixing Swift with the Arabian Nights... enriching the English language with your never ending creativity.

Jack Lang

In our opinion, companies that cannot sustain high revenue growth eventually see their premium erode over the sector. Although Cisco has succeeded in moving attention away from its lack of top-line growth to improved margins, we believe that investors are hardly attracted to a cost-cutting story.

Ariane Mahler

They succeeded in meeting expectations, not the least on the top line and they had a decent profitability, helped by earlier cost-cutting measures.

Tommi Saukkoriipi

Red-haired, fair skinned people have a higher instance of skin cancer than black-haired individuals. And the melanin pigment in the skin of red haired people differs chemically from the melanin in the skin of those with black hair. So researchers have tried to compare the red with the black pigments, but have not succeeded in comparing the isolated human pigments until now.

John Simon

It was an attempt, a bold attempt, one that succeeded in some respects to obstruct the justice sought by a fellow American citizen. That is heavy. That is soul-searching in its quality. That goes beyond those who would say, 'He committed perjury about sex so what,'.

George Gekas

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

Alan Greenspan

Ang Lee has succeeded in presenting this highly controversial situation in an intelligent and sensitive fashion and secured outstanding performances from the entire cast. It is a feat which has been rightly recognized.

George William Russell

Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.

Haile Selassie

Where we failed, Tricia succeeded. She was able to deliver a sale that no one thought could be done, deliver development approvals in the face of nearly insurmountable obstacles and even help the community in the process.

Paul Schofield

African journalists have succeeded in actually creating a new form of journalism that combines their regular news reporting with some sort of human rights advocacy.

Yves Sorokobi

Jim Copeland is one of the best athletic directors who's served college athletics. He took on a difficult position after the death penalty and succeeded.

Bill Byrne

I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.

Lamar Hunt

The plan to reduce the number of speculators in the market succeeded.

Michael Fowler

I can't decide if the accord was a genuine attempt to bring the groups together that failed or a bid to divide the Sunnis that succeeded.

Joost Hiltermann

We were an experiment to see if a unit of government could perform in a self-supporting way - an attempt to bring some degree of fiscal and social accountability to government agencies. To a large extent, we succeeded.

Dave Strohmaier

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.

Sidney Sheldon

If we come out of this meeting with a framework for the process for a political transition, then we will have succeeded. This is the first step in a long road toward establishing good governance in Afghanistan.

Ahmad Fawzi

We have succeeded in creating innovative products and building an engineering execution team that can apply innovative design approaches to solve the complex problems associated with designing CMOS RF chips.

Jim Finch

Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.

Walter Lippmann

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

Larry L. King

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.

Ferdinand Piech

We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.

Jim Clarke

The summit succeeded last week in demonstrating that the EU is capable of action. Germany played a crucial mediating role without sacrificing national interests. We have made clear we see this as a huge success.

Thomas Steg

What all these people had is a belief in themselves and a belief in their work and the perseverance to keep trying until they succeeded.

Peter Casey

I hope that over the past seven years we succeeded in bringing a little of it back.

David Chase

What America has succeeded in creating is not an economy impervious to shocks, but merely one which enables their consequences to be postponed to a later date.

Peter Schiff

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door, ... Nobody has succeeded yet.

Ferdinand Piech

His real intention appears to be to deliver a blow to the patella of a conglomerate-controlled press corps that, until recently, has indulged the Bush administration's most extravagant smears and lies, ... He has completely succeeded.

David Denby

I succeeded in turning a building into a business.

Dave Checketts

America has succeeded because she was founded a Christian nation and if we hope to stop the moral decline in America and the world, we must return to those principles. We are preaching a simple message of doing what is simply right and to stop doing what is simply wrong.

Don Swarthout

The only thing I succeeded in doing last night was wasting a lot of time and gas driving to and from the airport.

Bill Krueger

He actually believed in his heart that he would better them by his conviction and his beliefs and his skills, and I think largely succeeded. What he leaves behind is a tremendous challenge for the rest of us and a guiding force.

Paul Slattery

Nokia has once again succeeded in attracting the upper end of the market with its sophisticated phones and big mid-range portfolio. It has been more successful in this group than its rivals.

Jussi Hyoty

To accomplish this, we knew we had to search the best firms so we could get the best people. I believe we have greatly succeeded in that.

Stuart Grossman

The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!

Sun Yat sen

The Republicans succeeded in playing the terrorism card last time. We have to convince women that we Democrats are tough on terrorism.

Ellen Malcolm

We invaded to get him [Aristide] out. Now we've got the guy who succeeded Aristide as the president.

Eduardo Gamarra

The result was what we expected… that was what we set out to do and we succeeded. Ghana are a very good, fast team and if they didn't have a man sent off the field, we would have had much more trouble.

Zhang Ning

The result was what we expected ... that was what we set out to do and we succeeded.

Zhang Ning