Quotes About Mistake

Loneliness. Sometimes that awful feeling causes you to do something stupid.

To deny humanity the lesson of consequences would be a mistake. And I do not make mistakes.

The worst part about doing something inexcusable is that you can never take it back. It's like breaking a glass. It can't unbreak. The best you can do it sweep it up, and hope you don't step on the slivers you left behind.

It's like when you call the radio station when they ask for the ninth caller, but you're never the ninth caller, so when they actually pick up and talk to you, you figure it must be some mistake. Then they put you on the radio, you sound like a complete fool, and then you hang up before you can give them your address, so they can't mail you your concert tickets. Don't laugh - it happened.

The worst part about doing something inexcusable is that you can never take it back. It's like breaking a glass. It can't unbreak. The best you can do is sweep it up, and hope you don't step on the slivers you left behind.

Guilt is the idiot cousin of remorse," Scythe Faraday had been fond of saying.

The worst part about doing something inexcusable is that you can never take it back. It's like breaking glass. I can't unbreak. The best you can do is sweep it up, and hope you don't step on the slivers you left behind.

Me prometiste contener ese genio! -Te equivocas: tú me lo pediste, y yo me negué.

Sometimes you make a mistake, taking the wrong poem more often I make the mistake, writing it.

Holmberg's Mistake.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. Alas! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt my tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out, which was lost, as was the third one.

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.

December 31, 1999—not so for December 31, 2000. Everybody celebrated the turn of the millennium on the wrong date.

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence or overwork?

The familiar rage was back, warming her from the inside out. It was the rage of a woman repeatedly ignored and overlooked, denied her due, mistaken for just another enjoyable mistake the morning after

By dawn on Sunday he had been awake for over thirty hours, tracking a crisis of ever-expanding but indeterminate scope. A large body of operational research demonstrates that human beings suffer disproportionately from fatigue-induced errors of judgment after twelve hours of concentration at work; while Gerald Lockhart had long experience of pushing himself under crisis conditions, he was about to make a fatal mistake.

Not that she's happy with Bob. Iris still hasn't forgiven him for unintentionally massacring most of her congregation, cocking up a very important summoning which might have shaved four years off the critical path to the New Management, and always being late with his timesheets.

A PEBCAK is a Problem that Exists Between Chair And Keyboard.

The IT worker has to know in their bones that if they make a mistake, things can go horribly wrong. Tension and cynicism are constant companions, along with camaraderie and competitiveness. It's a lot like being a spy, or necromancer. You don't get out much, and when you do it's usually at night.

you can't learn from a fatal mistake.

I can't change yesterday, but I can sure mess up today.

But I know well that no good ever comes from mistaking manners for kindness.

Because, like Sherlock says to Dr. Watson, 'it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.