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Quotes About Mistake

We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Sometimes I wonder if anything that happens to us is ever a mistake. The Zen masters say, "There is absolutely nothing wrong with this moment.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
The tyrannosaurus looked a little shamefaced - but only a little, for dinosaurs would rather drown in tar than admit they're wrong. That unfortunate attitude played a key role in their extinction.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Capita a tutti di combinare qualche pasticcio a volte, dopotutto non si può essere sempre nel giusto. ma quando cadi hai due possibilità: restare lì a terra ad autocommiserarti o alzarti e cercare di porre rimedio alle tue azioni. Cadere non è un crimine. Il crimine è restare a terra.
~ Cathy Hopkins
He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?
~ Geraldine Brooks
For sin, too, must always start with but a single misstep, and suddenly we are hurtling toward some uncertain stopping point. All that is sure in the descent is that we will arrive sullied and bruised and unable to regain our former place without hard effort.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying
~ Gerard Way
Anger without power is folly.
~ German proverb
If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
~ Gertrude Stein
There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The working of great administrations is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self-interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.
~ Giorgio De Santillana
Aveva urlato. E aveva sbagliato a farlo. Il disprezzo che provava per quell'uomo non doveva essere manifestato con un ruggito. Doveva essere espresso con il sibilo del serpente. E serpente divenne.
~ Giorgio Faletti
I rather wished I'd stabbed him somewhere less awkward.
~ Glen Duncan
The mistake we make after we have chased away the lie is because we love the truth so much, we make for her a beautiful and very comfortable bed.
~ Goa Kerle
To err is human To purr feline.
~ Robert Byrne, 1983
I wish life had an Undo function.
~ Author Unknown
Even if you make a mistake, make it part of the dance and move on.
~ Dance saying
A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank.
~ Author Unknown
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
~ Jason Love
Guilt sticks like glue.
~ Terri Guillemets
Justifying a fault doubles it.
~ French proverb
There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps.
~ David Lloyd George
Every time you make a typo, the errorists win.
~ Author Unknown
It certainly was cold, was his thought. That man from Sulphur Creek had spoken the truth when telling how cold it sometimes got in the country. And he had laughed at him at the time! That showed one must not be too sure of things. There was no mistake about it, it was cold.
~ Jack London