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Quotes About Mistake

Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
~ Oscar Wilde
I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
~ Oscar Wilde
15.30 The Master said, "Having gone astray, to fail to get right back on track is to stray indeed.
~ Confucius
You can't go back," Gilchrist said. "Haven't you heard? We're under quarantine, thanks to Mr. Dunworthy's carelessness.
~ Connie Willis
He said that it was a mistake to expect too much of justice in this world. He said that the notion that evil is seldom rewarded was greatly overspoken for if there were no advantage to it then men would shun it and how could virtue then be attached to its repudiation?
~ Cormac McCarthy
It's like a lot of things, said the smith. Do the least part of it wrong and ye'd just as well to do it all wrong.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You always get everything wrong. It's Goofy. It's not nuts.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart?
~ Cornelia Funke
She'd fallen in love with the wrong boy. But when did love ever bother about that?
~ Cornelia Funke
Oh yes, he was an idiot. He'd always been frightened by how much he needed her. And now it was too late.
~ Cornelia Funke
The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master… So why did she still keep following her heart?
~ Cornelia Funke
If you installed something wrong, the system tried to find a way to work around your stupid mistake.
~ Cory Doctorow
I's the look-out! I's the look-out! AAAAAAGHHHH! There's a jagular! There's a jagular! Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Ohhhh Ã¢â'¬Â¦ No, sorrys, my mistake, is a treetrunk. SORRYS, everybody Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Cressida Cowell
She told me that we'd never know if he'd taken too much medicine by mistake or on purpose but that really there wasn't much of a difference because even if he'd taken too much on purpose, it had been because he'd believed more medicine would make him feel better.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life's mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Man is a mistake. He must go.
~ D.H. Lawrence
I'm sorry I hurt your hand...with my face. -Bobby Pendragon
~ D.J. MacHale
A Zen master's life is one continuous mistake.
~ D?gen Zenji
To leave the road of continual failure, a person must first utter the three most difficult words to say: 'I was wrong.
~ Dale Carnegie
I pray you, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake of the faith and passion that is in me, and seeking the grain of truth hidden there.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back! Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers and dreams and gaping, I discover myself on the verge of the usual mistake.
~ Walt Whitman
What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.
~ Walter Dean Myers
we really fucked up the engineering on this
~ Walter Isaacson