Quotes About Mistake

And at this point he made his fatal, terrible mistake. He mistook the spirit of the times, the social, universal evil, for a private and domestic one. He listened to our cliches, to our unnatural official tone, and he thought it was because he was second-rate, a nonentity, that we talked like this. I suppose you find it incredible that such trivial things could matter so much in our married life. You can't imagine how important this was, what foolish things this childish nonsense made him do.

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure. It is, after all, what everyone does all the time.

Amazing how a little thing like that can cause a misunderstanding. Everyone makes mistakes, Marvin. Don't feel bad.

A far worse mistake than misreading an animal's emotions is to assume the animal hasn't any emotions at all.

emotions aren't confined to humans. A far worse mistake than misreading an animal's emotions is to assume the animal hasn't any emotions at all.

He sighed. She was a mistake in every sense. She made herself available once, and I make it a rule to avoid overly eager women a second time. And that doesn't make you sound like an asshole at all.

because sometimes doing something wrong led to something so right.

I wondered what terrible thing it was that I had done.

When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone ...

While trying to extricate his car from the collision, Mr. Piper reversed into a shop-window. When challenged, Mr. Piper said: "I thought it was all open country about here

Dear me," Romulan said, "worst of all my execrable failings, to bring you, sir, to such a display.

Never mistake a woman as an opportunity for bliss.

Don't mistake man's weakness for God's.

Chance, you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've passed it. It's all you had and you've had it.

Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

Scotland Yard men were responsible for following her—and at this point, things went badly wrong. "Whether she had left before the watch began or whether she is still there, I am powerless to say," reported an exasperated Robert Anderson. "The police [are] utterly unfit for work of this kind.

She must have read Shaw's story a few years before. Yes, that must have been it. She had read the story and clearly enjoyed it, to the extent that she had copied it, verbatim, into a notebook reserved for that purpose. Then, finding an assignment due for my class, she had paged through said notebook, stumbled across Shaw's narrative, and forgotten that Shaw, rather than Tara Tappani, was its rightful author. A simple mix-up.

Explanation is a well-dressed error.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

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We all do shit like this, stuff that's no good for you. You do it and then there's no feeling positive about it afterwards.

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.

Max smiled, the smile of comfort, the one you give to someone who's made a big mistake and is suffering the consequences, the one that doesn't help but shows you understand.

Most wars start because someone makes a mistake, and most battles are lost by the losing side rather than won by the victors. I'm not sure if that makes things better or worse. I suppose it depends on which you disapprove of more, malice or stupidity.