Quotes About Mistake

my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.

Well, you're safe until you make another silly mistake,' the Spook added. 'And don't say you won't. He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job.

There was more than one type of guilt. You might do something horrible that you later regretted. But you could also feel guilty for something you'd not done!

We were trying, as I irrelevantly analyzed it, to avoid what might be termed a historic mistake. We were trying to understand, that is, whether we were in a preapocalyptic situation, like the European Jews in the thirties or the last citizens of Pompeii, or whether our situation was merely near-apocalyptic, like that of the Cold War inhabitants of New York, London, Washington

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

back." As he spoke, Ivypool sprang to her paws. "This is all my fault," she mewed

What have I done?

Only then did she realize that she had completely forgotten to meet Crowfeather at twilight. CHAPTER

That could have just been a mistake." Jaypaw felt Firestar's green gaze warm his pelt. "Their apprentices would not be the first to stray onto another Clan's territory." He means Hollypaw!

that I slipped on some wet leaves, went nose over paws, and crashed into a tree. Great StarClan, it hurt! And what hurt even more was that I was pretty sure Firestar had to stop himself from laughing.

You were a bit careless

Breezepelt looked up at him, equally awkward. His eyes were guilty as he replied. "I should never have listened to the Dark Forest cats," he mewed stiffly. "You're a Clan cat, and my loyalty should be to the Clans.

That was a giant ball of fail. What now?

Busted," I said, raising my hands in a gesture of guilt. "That's what you get

que la naturaleza había hecho un gran error al darle la juventud a los jóvenes, porque los jóvenes no sabían aprovecharla. La juventud debería ser para los viejos, porque sólo uno estando viejo sabía aprovechar la juventud.

There was but a thread between life and death, and he had stumbled blamelessly onto the wrong side of it.

She had this vague look in her eyes, half-disappointed, half what's-the-difference. Like someone who realized he bought skim milk by mistake and doesn't have the energy to take it back.

Before you begin, study unceasingly, but once started, make mistake if you must but you must execute freely (12 May 1855).

The translator's task is essentially a difficult and often a thankless one. He is severely criticized if he makes a mistake, but only faintly praised when he succeeds, for often it is assumed that anyone who know two languages ought to be able to do as well as the translator who has labored to produce a text.

The word "pioneer" betrays a disturbing willingness to repeat the worst mistake of the pioneers of the American West—the mistake of considering an inhabited place uninhabited. To imagine oneself as a pioneer in a place as densely populated as Chicago is either to deny the existence of your neighbors or to cast them as natives who must be displaced. Either way, it is a hostile fantasy.

Many a man who falls in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

We're about to live through history and it's incredibly exciting. But don't make the mistake of thinking life stops because of any of this.

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

The only person, if you're a religious person, who's always right is God. And if you make the mistake of thinking that you, like God, are always right, and that you, like God, always know everything, then it seems to me you're riding for a fall.