Quotes About Mistake

But nobody did come, because nobody does: and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out if the world.

We have missed because we tried to miss, I suppose.

He was conscious of a cold and sickly thrill throughout him; and all he reasoned was this, that the young creature whose graces had intoxicated him into making the most imprudent decision of his life, was less an angel than a women.

All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.

If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.

Why - what the name - began her father. I thought you went out to get the parsley!

I am certain one ought to be allowed to undo what one has done so ignorantly ! I daresay it happens to lots of women; only they submit, and I kick.... When people of a later age look back upon the barbarous customs and superstitions of the times that we have the unhappiness to live in, what will they say!

Hence Bathsheba lived in a perception that her purposes were broken off. She was not a woman who could hope on without good materials for the process, differing thus from the less far-sighted and energetic, though more petted ones of the sex, with whom hope goes on as a sort of clockwork which the merest food and shelter are sufficient to wind up; and perceiving clearly that her mistake had been a fatal one, she accepted her position, and waited coldly for the end.

The mistake of expressing them had arisen from his allowing himself to be influenced by general principles to the disregard of the particular instance.

as soon as you think of yourself as teaching contemplation to others, you make another mistake. No one teaches contemplation except God, who gives it. The best you can do is write something that will serve as an occasion for someone else to realize what God wants of him.

But his was an understandable mistake, given how little attention is paid to accuracy in history and how often history is used as just a propaganda tool in current controversies.

I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella.

What a fool I am sometimes.

What a mess this was. Robbers too stupid to ask for money, and a victim too stupid to pretend that she didn't have any.

It won't happen again, I swear it!" Karic rasped. "If we'd reached my lair in time it never would have happened at all!" "But it did, it did and nothing will ever be the same!

You've been given a second chance at true love. Few of us are rarely given even a first chance. If you ruin this, you will be a bigger fool than I could ever imagine. This time when he leaves you, it really will be your fault.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein

Coop's sending thundered in my mind. We come. I smiled. Felt a surge of adrenaline. "You made a mistake, Will. You didn't catch us all." He snorted. "You're gonna stop us, alone?" Leaves rustled behind me. Speckman's gaze flicked over my shoulder. "Alone?" I barked a laugh. "Guess you haven't met the extended family.

Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices--and then there's the one you pick, commit to, and make great--is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decisions in life.

How noble. But that's your fatal error. Right, boy?

It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.

Overbearing parents was one thing; waking up to a drunk uncle mistaking you for the toilet was another.

Max couldn't believe he'd fallen for her. If he'd just had a thing for flat-chested women none of this would have happened.

Maybe I should have screwed up.