Quotes About Mistake

Four bad rubbers would be double his income for a year. If something went wrong he'd look pretty stupid. Have to borrow from M. And M wasn't a particularly rich man. Suddenly he saw that this ridiculous game might end in a very nasty mess.

at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.

As far as the welfare of every other living form on earth was concerned, the human project was not just a failure, it was a mistake from the very beginning.

Give me an opportunity to fail, Saiman said. I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech.

Oh, Gods. His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. The name's William. It's a common mistake.

The idiot had shot their own dog. That's what happened when the destructive potential of a man's weapons exceeded his intelligence.

You should try making more noise as you walk, too." Curran suggested. "Maybe the ghouls will mistake you for a small underground elephant and run off." "When we get out of here, I'll kick you." "You'll try.

I could've fallen for someone steady. Dependable. Well-grounded. But nooo, I had to lose my head over this idiot.

Every young man will make a mistake in his life, I bet you.

The biggest mistake we usually tend to make with young players is over-coaching.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia years ago. Believe it or not, we took only granola, thinking we'd be eating a lot of lake trout. Well, we neglected to bring along a net, and our fishing line was only 8-lb. test.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. Just don't reload the gun.

Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.

Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view?

I wish I had perfect pitch, but I don't, and thanks to the miracle of YouTube, a bad night lives forever!

The word 'racist' is a permanent stain against my name. It's worse than a criminal record. Some people will never forgive me. Others will accept I made a terrible mistake and recognise I have learnt from it. It's on YouTube when my kids type in their dad's name, and it comes up 'Jamie Vardy racist'. On Google, too. It's horrible.

I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.

During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.