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Quotes About Mistake

She says nothing. You say nothing. You know you made a mistake and you are better than this, smarter than this, and I now that being a mother is the hardest job in the world--RIP Love quit too--but the Meerkat didn't need that right now and you're about to apologize--I see it in your eyes--but she throws a book at you.
~ Caroline Kepnes
I confide in everyone. I have no restricted private self, reserved specifically for certain trusted special people. I trust and mistrust anyone. I have traveled a full circle. But this time, on returning to zero again, I am able to act out the mistake more adeptly. I am on my way to becoming a very skilled loser. A specialist, a loser to end all losers. A flair for failing. I do it with style and finesse.
~ Carrie Fisher
Mrs Nix smacks herself in the head again. If she keeps that up she'll bruise
~ Carrie Jones
She had been given the opportunity to participate in civilization, and she muffed it.
~ Casey Sherman
I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.
~ Casey Stengel
A sailor called Christopher followed his mistake and those who come later have added theirs. Now he's dead, and as some say of the dead, safe and sound in the legacy of the grave. 'Tis a childish saying, for they be yet present with the living. (211)
~ George Lamming
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle," Albert Einstein wrote, "that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. . . . It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and sense of duty.
~ George Leonard
It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.
~ George MacDonald
I should have known better than to cheat a friend / And waste the chance that I'd been given / So I'm never gonna dance again / The way I danced with you.
~ George Michael
Only one mistake, Ezra! You should have talked to women.
~ George Oppen
Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.
~ George R.R. Martin
You were wrong to love her, a voice whispered. You were wrong to leave her, a different voice insisted.
~ George R.R. Martin
And Arya, well . . . Ned's visitors would oft mistake her for a stableboy if they rode into the yard unannounced. Arya was a trial, it must be said. Half a boy and half a wolf pup.
~ George R.R. Martin
D'you remember that cave? We should have stayed in that cave. I told you so.
~ George R.R. Martin
That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride.
~ George R.R. Martin
Sweet one," her father said gently, "listen to me. When you're old enough, I will make you a match with a high lord who's worthy of you, someone brave and gentle and strong. This match with Joffrey was a terrible mistake. That boy is no Prince Aemon, you must believe me." "He is!" Sansa insisted. "I don't want someone brave and gentle, I want him. We'll be ever so happy, just like in the songs, you'll see.
~ George R.R. Martin
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness, and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.
~ George Santayana
People can do great things, George. They can come up with noble, shining ideals. But people are also fallible human beings, and we know they made a terrible mistake. - Takekuma Norman Takei
~ George Takei
If a mistake occurs with regularity, it might well become the norm. If enough people believe and propagate the error, it could become gospel.
~ George Takei
Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
~ George Will
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
~ George Will
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
~ Mario Cuomo
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble; how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.
~ Emmet Fox
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
~ Josh Billings