Quotes About Mistake

I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon.

Ayn? ÅŸey benim de ba??ma gelmiÅŸti. YaÅŸl?ca bir kad?n? alabal?k nehri ile kar??t?rd???m? hat?rlad?m ve ondan özür diledim. Afedersiniz dedim. Sizin bir alabal?k nehri olduÄŸunuzu sand?m. DeÄŸilim. dedi. Amerika'da Alabal?k Av? kitab?ndan

I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon. Excuse me, I said, I thought you were trout stream. I'm not, she said.

Admit that you're wrong- or that you've made a mistake.

My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these fifteen years.' We clapped our hands red. No fundamentalist would ever say that. In practice, not all scientists would.

we are more inclined to mistake a shadow for a burglar than a burglar for a shadow. A false positive might be a waste of time. A false negative could be fatal.

The longer they stayed on, and the better they knew each other, the better she at least could see their mistake, and the more misguided their lives became—like a long proof in mathematics in which the first calculation is wrong, following which all other calculations move you further away from how things were when they made sense.

since he seemed to be the one left out somehow, the one who would be lonely soon, the one who had done something he would someday wish he hadn't and would have no one to tell him that it was all right, that they forgave him, that these things happen in the world.

If you drop the lamb, just pick it up. Who's going to know?

Let the learning go on without your being too conscious of it, and it is all done more smoothly and efficiently. Sometimes too much so, for, in complex skills like typing, one may learn to consistently type 'hte' for 'the'. The remedy is to reverse the process by consciously practicing the mistake 'hte', whereupon contrary to the usual idea of 'practice makes perfect', the mistake drops away—a phenomenon called negative practice.

And now I live with that sin of cowardice on my face forever.

Ah, and that . . . that had been a mistake. If not for that, she might have been able to anticipate what happened next. Reveries made one soft. She never should have forgotten that the world was on the side of the planners, not the dreamers.

Ramsey made the mistake of guessing it didn't and shook his head, gaining him a scowl and a blasphemy from the cantankerous baron

Surely there must be something they had said, or done, surely there must be some mistake they had made, surely they must be guilty of something, some obscure crime, perhaps, of which they were not even aware.

The error was not yours, Somerled, Eyvind said quietly, moving to the doorway. It was mine. I failed to teach you the one lesson you could not do without: how to be a man.

He'd lost his temper with Erisa once too often, and look what had happened. The stupid woman had tried to run from him, and when she fell she'd killed his son as well as herself.

Beni öldürmen korkunç bir hata olur. Ailemdek? kad?nlar kötü bir ÅŸekilde öldürüldükleri takdirde, hayalet olarak geri dönme eÄŸilimindedir. Thomas'?n bak??lar? Fia'n?n gözlerine kilitlendi. Hayalet mi? Evet, süzülen beyaz elbisemi giyinir, boÄŸaz?mdan ac? sesler ç?kar?r?m. Böyle bir ÅŸeyi görmekten pek hoÅŸlanmazs?n.

Billie Jo threw the pail, they said. An accident, they said.

Talk about sloppy seconds. Was there such a thing as sloppy thousandths?

I opened my mouth to say what a horrible accident, that I was an idiot, that I hadn't been looking where I was going and it was all my fault and blah-blah-blah, but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis.

The mistake,' Sylvie said, 'is thinking that love equates with happiness.')

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there is no way of doing it.