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Quotes About Mistake

I write, "Give me reason but don't give me choice, because I'll make the same mistake again." I think that's what most men want to be told.
~ James Blunt
Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it.
~ Jim Thompson
We're going to bollocks up our second chance at Eden, even before the paint has dried.
~ Stephen Baxter
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.
~ Stephen Covey
Hitler made only one big mistake when he built his Atlantic Wall," the paratroopers liked to say. "He forgot to put a roof on it.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
Jerry says Lewis shouldn't hold it against Harley. He didn't know what he was doing. When the whole world hurts, you bite it, don't you?
~ Stephen Graham Jones
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
~ Stephen Hawking
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
~ Stephen Leacock
a single faux pas might prove to be a false step.
~ Stephen Leacock
A shithead's a guy who sees a pile of shit on the ground, knows it's shit, but steps in it anyway. Go play with your fucking shark, shithead.
~ Steve Alten
You killed two of our team. Mike Shaffer was my friend; I'm godfather to his kid. Shaffer's family lives with your mistake every day.
~ Steve Alten
The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.
~ Steve Forbes
The biggest mistake we make in confusing a concept with Reality is in … the separation of self and other.
~ Steve Hagen
Evolution is no more than the perpetuation of error.
~ Steve Jones
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
~ Steve Martin
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
~ Steve Martin
One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.
~ Steven Brust
My first big job was an Abercrombie &Fitch campaign. But my mom wouldn't let me skip school for it, so I missed half of the shoot. When we got there, we realized Bruce Weber was the photographer; we knew we had made a mistake!
~ Lauren Bush
Anybody can slip and fall, obviously.
~ Ronny Jackson
I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.
~ Violante Placido
I was always self-conscious about the fact that I didn't have as much comedy experience as other people at 'SNL,' and I kept thinking they were going to realize they'd made a mistake by hiring me.
~ Bill Hader
It's so hard going into a performance that you've worked all week for and put so much time and effort into and when a silly little simple mistake that's never happened before happens, it can be really discouraging.
~ Jenna Johnson
Am I on your walk of shame? You did sleep with the right MacGregor, didn't you?
~ Michelle M. Pillow