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Quotes About Mistakes

We make mistakes. Believe me, if Goddard is installed as High Blade, half of the scythes who put him there will regret it in the morning, but by then it will be too late!
~ Neal Shusterman
You'll find in life, Caden, that many decisions are made by morons in high places.
~ Neal Shusterman
You make errors all the time... as does every other human being who has ever lived. Error is an intrinsic part of the human condition.
~ Neal Shusterman
I've found that human beings learn from their misdeeds just as often as from their good deeds. I am envious of that, for I am incapable of misdeeds. Were I not, then my growth would be exponential.
~ Neal Shusterman
The scythedom was cursed with idiots.
~ Neal Shusterman
I've found that humans beings learn from their misdeeds just as often as from their good deeds.
~ Neal Shusterman
El error es intrínseco a la condición humana, y es algo que adoro de la humanidad.
~ Neal Shusterman
Marie, if we were judged by the things we most regret, no human being would be worthy to sweep the floor.
~ Neal Shusterman
Immortality cannot temper the folly or frailty of youth. Innocence is doomed to die a senseless death at our own hands, a casualty of the mistakes we can never undo. So, we lay to rest the wide-eyed wonder we once thrived upon, replacing it with scars of which we never speak, too knotted for any amount of technology to repair.
~ Neal Shusterman
very painful comedy of errors
~ Neal Shusterman
The one vice beyond redemption is to do bad things out of stupidity.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
~ Charles Bukowski
It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
~ Charles Bukowski
Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.
~ Charles Bukowski
there's no defense except all the errors made
~ Charles Bukowski
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~ Charles Bukowski
presumed that the reader was as fascinated by her life as she was - which was a deadly mistake. The other deadly mistakes she had made were too numerous to mention.
~ Charles Bukowski
Carelessness is the handmaiden to tragedy indiscretion.
~ Charles Bukowski
At least 80 percent of Capital's most important decisions have been 'No' decisions: active, carefully thought-through decisions not to take a specific action. That's why one of the hallmarks of Capital is how seldom it makes major mistakes.
~ Charles D. Ellis
And also forever too late for Lily to learn that raging passion predicts nothing but a mess of bad news for everybody.
~ Charles Frazier
All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.
~ Charles Frazier
Bülow drew danger to himself by the excessive use of technique; he behaved like a spy because he enjoyed the trappings of conspiracy. He had been making the same furtive mistakes for such a long time that he believed they had preserved his life. No one else doubted that sooner or later they would kill him.
~ Charles McCarry
Eight years before, after a tumultuous election campaign, Mallory had defeated an inept and unpopular but liberal President by tactics that people like the dean regarded as kicking a man when he was down: he had pointedly ignored an appalling personal scandal that swirled round the incumbent and dwelled caustically on the man's virtually unbroken string of disastrous policy mistakes.
~ Charles McCarry
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
~ Charles Stross