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Quotes About Mistake

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused
~ Charles Dickens
Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie.
~ Charles Dickens
we have done wrong, and are reaping the fruits of wrong.
~ Charles Dickens
I'm a devil at a quick mistake, and when I make one it takes the form of Lead.
~ Charles Dickens
if I should make a mistake, it could never be set right in your lifetime.
~ Charles Dickens
Yeniden dirilecek olsan ayvay? yerdin valla Jerry.
~ Charles Dickens
Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's misused oppurtunities!
~ Charles Dickens
are," the guard called to the voice in the mist, "because, if I should make a mistake, it could never be set right in your lifetime. Gentleman of the name of Lorry answer straight." "What is the matter?" asked the passenger, then, with mildly quavering speech. "Who wants me? Is it Jerry?" ("I don't like Jerry's voice, if
~ Charles Dickens
The beer has reminded me that I forgot.
~ Charles Dickens
No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time--but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
~ Charles E. Wilson
He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.
~ Charles Frazier
Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.
~ Charles Frazier
A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.
~ Judith Martin
As soon as you see a mistake and don't fix it, it becomes your mistake.
~ Author Unknown
Chance takers are accident makers.
~ Author Unknown
If you mess up, 'fess up.
~ Author Unknown
Acting Captain Warms' first terrible miscalculation came when he executed the textbook turn into the wind to meet the storm squall.
~ Gordon Thomas
One of them, in 1925 the newly elected Finance Minister, Anatole de Monzie, when making his inaugural speech forthrightly declared: "Gentlemen, the treasury is empty." It was a mistake. De Monzie survived this spark of lucidity by only a few hours; that afternoon he found himself removed from office.
~ Gordon Thomas
Meanwhile, in assessing responsibility for the attempted arson, murder, and strike action, Robert Wilmott had made one grave mistake. He suspected the wrong person.
~ Gordon Thomas
Duibuqi, duibuqi
~ Grace Lin
The court had handed her over to his charge. What a mistake! He should have had her when she was young if he was ever to hope to do anything with her. But he must do something. He reached out suddenly and took possession of the cigarette and case before the surprised girl had time to protest.
~ Grace Livingston Hill
I regret to report I let my barely legal self down.
~ Grace Perry
we [can] catch fish and just throw them back... it [doesn't] seem to hurt the fish much past a cut lip. But then... one [may] swallow the hook...[it'd be] a goner, whether we tried to pull it out or just cut the line. Because once you've swallowed the hook, there's no losing it. Me, I've swallowed it big time.
~ Graham McNamee
Moving into the hallway, I make the mistake of looking down. The floor seems to drop out from under me, with nothing solid to support me but my own reflection. I take a step, watching the sole of my bare left foot meet its twin rising up on the flipside. I get the weirdest sensation that I won't fall as long as I have the reversed images of my own feet to walk on.
~ Graham McNamee