Quotes About Mistake

I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

When I was 11, I burned a field down by mistake. It was an empty field, probably about 10 acres in size. Me and my friend were lighting firecrackers, and we ended up burning down the entire field. We got found out, and I think I was grounded for about three months.

I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.

The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.

Just because some of us make a mistake in love once doesn't mean we're doomed to repeat it.

In America, we love to give people second chances too - as long as you admit you were wrong and come back and do it the right way.

Oh no. I've just accidently paid a visit to the cakeshop of love. I haven't put back my Italian cakey, but I have accidentally picked up a Dave the Tart.

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.

... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.

Even if I thought he as perfect for her." She turned to face him. "What were we thinking?" "We weren't," he said. "We were in love.

A hundred years after his death, a statue of Lavoisier was erected in Paris and much admired until someone pointed out that it looked nothing like him. Under questioning the sculptor admitted that he had used the head of the mathematician and philosopher the Marquis de Condorcet—apparently he had a spare—in the hope that no one would notice or, having noticed, would care.

Cook was a brilliant navigator and a conscientious observer, but he made one critical mistake on his first voyage: he took Australia's wet season for its dry one, and concluded that the country was more hospitable than it was.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.B

And now she's a parasite, living off her host. If he makes a mistake, she made the mistake.

In the corner of the room, the triumvirate of my top aides sits in observation: the chief of staff, Carolyn Brock; Danny Akers, my oldest friend and White House counsel; and Jenny Brickman, my deputy chief of staff and senior political adviser. All of them stoic, stone-faced, worried. Not one of them wanted me to do this. It was their unanimous conclusion that I was making the biggest mistake of my presidency.

If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.

Be bold if you are going to make an error make a doozy.

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

When I don't touch you it's a mistake in any life, in each place and forever.

When I don't touch you it's a mistake in any life, in each place and forever. — Bob Hicok from, "Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love Poem," Plus Shipping . (BOA Editions Ltd.; 1st ed edition October 1, 1998)

why anyone would trade Rachel for the secretary, but he'd watched a few of those late night Showtime flicks and men could be incredibly stupid when their genitals were involved.

Everyone wants your position," Trump continued. "I made a huge mistake giving it to you." The president continued with venom. It was chilling. Cohn had never been talked to or treated like that in his life. "This is treason," Trump said.

For those of you who were critical that nobody paid enough attention to the generals at the beginning of the war, has it occurred to you that you don't want to make that mistake at the end of the war? Secretary Robert Gates