Quotes About Mistake

I made a mistake.

And then, little by little, the reality of what I had just done sank in: I had just killed my boyfriend's dad!

What?" That's when I knew how wrong I'd been.

When you fuck up, shit gets real.

But the truth was for me, making the wrong choice had become an art.

She, Madame M for Mistake, could not predict the future — her own or anybody else's. She could not even predict one hour from now. Not one minute. Not one second. The future was un-predictable.

There was no record of Allegra being allowed to bear a daughter in this cycle. So the mere fact that you were born was already a violation. From birth she had been a mistake, Schuyler thought. Her mother that still, silent figure in the hospital bed... why did she choose to have me? Schuyler wondered

I'm sorry, I got you all snotty and wet.

Cannot put Humpty Dumpty to rights!

He took a wrong turn—several wrong turns, and was quite lost. It

the really dreadful losses" always occur after "the buyer forgot to ask 'How much?

In late 1998, the stock of a tiny, rarely traded building-maintenance company, Temco Services, nearly tripled in a matter of minutes on record-high volume. Why? In a bizarre form of financial dyslexia, thousands of traders bought Temco after mistaking its ticker symbol, TMCO, for that of Ticketmaster Online (TMCS), an Internet darling whose stock began trading publicly for the first time that day.8 Oscar Wilde joked that a cynic "knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

If an oath is a mistake then you are still obligated because you are sworn to it.

Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Hegel thought that, if enough was known about a thing to distinguish it from all other things, then all its properties could be inferred by logic. This was a mistake, and from this mistake arose the whole imposing edifice of his system. This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

Hegel thought that, if enough was known about a thing to distinguish it from all other things, then all its properties could be inferred by logic. This was a mistake, and from this mistake arose the whole edifice of his system. This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences.

Thinking that you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone.

The tale of Enron is a story of human weakness, of hubris and greed and rampant self-delusion; of ambition run amok; of a grand experiment in the deregulated world; of a business model that didn't work; and of smart people who believed their next gamble would cover their last disaster—and who couldn't admit they were wrong.

Candidates and their consultants keep making the same mistake. They assume that all independents are bundled neatly together ideologically between Republicans and Democrats.

When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.

After the 1929 crash, the Federal Reserve mistakenly focused its policies on preserving the gold value of the dollar rather than on stabilizing the domestic economy.

One night I was driving and so infatuated with dipping French fries into my milk shake that I drove right through a stop sign. The cop who pulled me over had no mercy.

My biggest mistake was when I started up easyEverything, a chain of Internet cafes. The idea that people would go to a shop to use a computer was revolutionary in 1999. It worked for a while, but cheap technology almost killed it. One silver lining of the problems I faced was that it gave me experience of turnarounds.