Quotes About Mistake

Goddamn it," Zane murmured, raking a hand through his hair. What had happened was his fault—he had failed to be the dominant that the submissive obviously wanted and most certainly needed. Instead of taking control he had relinquished it and thus had probably ruined any chance with her.

Since I'm eatin' crow, I might as well finish the whole bird.

foot-in-mouth disease

Great discoveries, Ganapathi, are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time.

Abigail had keeled over at the judge's signal. Pip, her Border Collie, had come flying when Abigail called, then dropped to the grass twenty feet out on her "Down!" command. According to the American Kennel Club rules, Abigail should have called him again when the judge gave the signal. I'm no expert on the finer points of scoring, but I was pretty sure that falling flat on her face was a serious handling error.

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.

Don't let your loophole become your noose.

You don't think before you do, then you're shocked when you end up on the wrong side of a shit pile.

He'd hate to start killing people at this stage in the game. Especially some poor schmuck who happened to marry the wrong woman.

I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of mistaken identity...I didn't know the guy I hit was a cop.

I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?

I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.

I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.

What we should have done a long time ago was stand up - players, ownership, everybody - and said: 'We made a mistake.'

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.

I made the mistake of watching "A.I." on cable the week they showed it about 792 times, and I ended up watching it every time it was on.

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out. I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq. We've been following time as it goes forward. What a classic mistake. Linear time is so pre-9-11.

... time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch him out.

Repentance seemed like too loose of a word. I knew I'd been wrong, but that didn't soften the blow.

Never block that person who is always available for you all the time. Never block him because you may not know what he has done for you. It is the biggest mistake you do in your life

How could anyone who prided herself upon her intelligence and good sense have been so foolishly ignorant?

How foolish of her to have fallen into a dream.

He would not have raised an eyebrow and smiled behind his eyes at a lady whose bed he had climbed into by mistake one night. He would have done the gentlemanly thing and died of mortification.