Quotes About Mistake

There's never been a noble war except in the history books and propaganda movies. It's a bloody, dirty, cruel, costly mistake in almost every case, as it was in this war that would end so badly. But the young soldiers can be and often are noble, selfless, and honorable. They don't fight for a flag or a president or mom and apple pie. When it comes down to it they fight and die for each other, and that is reason enough for them, and for me.

Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be.

The healing power of a good apology is also immediately recognizable. When someone offers me a genuine apology, I feel relieved and soothed. Whatever anger and resentment I may still be harboring melts away. I also feel better when I offer an apology I know is due. I'm enormously grateful that I can repair the disconnection after having made a mistake or acted badly.

people who always thought, "It's different here." They failed to realize that no government obeys laws. It will change, overrule, ignore, or defy them whenever they get in its way. To count on the law to protect you is a grave mistake.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all.

All too often, people make the mistake of focusing too much on the content of their

What did Fairweller say? When you delivered the note?" "Oh," said Clover, calming a little. "Well...nothing, actually. I sort of...accidentally...tore it to pieces." "Accidentally," Azalea echoed. "And threw it into the fire," said Clover. "Oh.

Not my finest hour," he says, shaking his head. "You realize you did it for no reason," I say. I tell him about talking to my dad and explain that I was crying because of that. "That information would have been useful BEFORE I shoved him in the pool.

Mistake good because you learn, you fix.

You...you loved her, didn't you, Pa?" Theodore sighed, and kept staring at the horses' rumps. "Oh, I loved her, all right," he answered. "A man sometimes can't help lovin' a woman, even if she's the wrong one.

La decisión de intentar encontrar una solución rápida y decisiva es una causa frecuente de fracasos.

If anything occurs that causes your price to go down, it's a self-inflicted wound.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

What happened? They had it! They had it in the palm of their hands! They grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory!

Exactly. If you keep up this pace much longer, you'll burn out, one way or another. Your body will quit on you, or you'll make a big mistake or take a foolish risk that either kills you, kills your career, kills somebody else, or all of the above. You've come pretty damn close to that twice already.

She'd always felt an almost parental responsibility to protect and reassure her two siblings and she'd just blown it with Lisa.

Sorry about the squishy in your shoe. Must've been something I ate.

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

When you apologize, it is a bit like reaching the last page of a book. The book is still there, with your wicked deed inside, but at least it is closed and put on a shelf. Every single thing I ought to have apologized for, and didn't, is like a book lying open and unfinished.

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

There are many expressions to describe someone who is going about something in the wrong way. "Making a mistake" is one way to describe this situation. "Screwing up" is another, although it is a bit rude, and "Attempting to rescue Lemony Snicket by writing letters to a congressman, instead of digging an escape tunnel" is a third way, although it is a bit too specific.

And I would hop like nobody has ever hopped before, if I could somehow go back to that terrible Thursday, and stop Beatrice from attending that afternoon tea where she met Esmé Squalor for the first time.

A világon a legnehezebb dolgok közé tartozik a megbánás. Ha valami történik az emberrel, és Å' nem megfelelÅ'en viselkedik, akkor ez az emlék éveken át bánthatja, de akkor már késÅ' azon gyötrÅ'dni, hogyan kellett volna helyesen cselekedni.

Everybody does something wrong at one time or another.