Quotes About Mistakes

Facebook is the literal manifestation of all our regrets, looping and looping, for free, on our computers and phones. People who should be gone and safely out of our lives forever are there again, one cryptic little glimpse at a time, reminding us of all the things we should or shouldn't have done.

Why. Do. People. Do. Stupid. Things. Because we're stupid, she said.

Stevie swept her light around, steering it away from a terrifying crack in the side, and then aimed it squarely forward. I'm going to the end, she said. Seriously? Nate said. This is what I came here for. My dragons are down there. Stevie, I wouldn't ... You're not me, Stevie said. If I die, avenge me. She was joking, but not totally. She had to go, and it also felt like a possible mistake. Some mistakes you have to make.

el castigo es producto de los propios errores

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....

Where once I'd felt the need to live up to his expectations, I now felt as if I had to make up for all his mistakes.

Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up.

I mean dumb choices in the wake of considerable deliberation: those times when you identify a real problem in your life, analyze it, and then with utter confidence come up with precisely the wrong answer.

There's only one thing you can count on, Mr. President," he said. "On any given moment in any given day, somebody somewhere is screwing up.

every man is trying to either live up to his father's expectations or make up for his father's mistakes

It's hard, in retrospect, to understand why you did something stupid. I don't mean the small stuff—ruining your favorite tie because you tried to eat soup in the car or throwing out your back because you got talked into playing tackle football on Thanksgiving. I mean dumb choices in the wake of considerable deliberation: those times when you identify a real problem in your life, analyze it, and then with utter confidence come up with precisely the wrong answer

History cannot be a sword to justify injustice or a shield against progress. It must be a manual for how to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.

Solo hay una cosa que puede dar por segura, señor presidente —me dijo—. Cualquier día, en cualquier momento dado, alguien, en algún lugar, la está cagando.»

Every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or live up to his mistakes.

Every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or live up to his mistakes. You

But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom.

He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one.

He doesn't even look at her because there is too much there, and he's afraid. She is his first child, his favorite, every mistake he ever made.

I'll never get over my grappling for balance, never stop believing life is going to be fair , the minute we can clear up all these mistakes of the temporarily misguided.

Mother says I never practiced anything but always watched Leah, letting her make the mistakes for both of us, until I was ready to do it myself with acceptable precision. Mother is kind to me, probably because I've stayed nearer at hand than her other children. But I disagree. I made plenty of my own mistakes. I just made them on the inside.

Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

If his guilt made him a tyrant before men, it made him like a child before his God. Not a helpless or pleading child, but a petulant one, the type of tough boy who's known too little love and is quick to blame others for his mistakes.