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Quotes About Mistake

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one's regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward, you will wish you had done something different.
~ Lemony Snicket
You should have gone west to America. You would have been a senior citizen of Boston. But you took a wrong turn, and what happened? You're a lonely old man from Liverpool.
~ lennon john ii
Even if you have just destroyed a Ming Vase, purr. Usually all will be forgiven.
~ Lenny Rubenstein
I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.
~ Leo Tolstoy
YOU JUST PICKED THE WRONG INMATE TO MESS WITH!" Legend said. "I'M TALKING TO YOU, DOOLIN. YOU HEAR ME? BAD CHOICE… VERY BAD CHOICE!
~ James Patterson
No, you were drawn in because you made the same mistake you made earlier: you didn't just open up and listen to those souls; you gave yourself over to them, as if they automatically had all the answers, without checking to see of they were connected and motivated by love.
~ James Redfield
Jack turned red,I kinda let a princess die. His grandfather groaned. You do realize that's not a good thing to do, right? the old man asked. So I'm told.
~ james riley
Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there'd be no doubt. But for now Driver is, as they say, in the moment. And the moment includes this blood lapping toward him, the pressure of dawn's late light at windows and door, traffic sounds from the interstate nearby, the sound of someone weeping in the next room.
~ James Sallis
Badly done, Emma!
~ Jane Austen
Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
~ Jane Austen
My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age! Just old enough to be formal, ungovernable, and to have the gout; too old to be agreeable, too young to die.
~ Jane Austen
You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.
~ Jane Austen
But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.
~ Jane Austen
I wanted to keep it from Jane's knowledge; but, unluckily, I had mentioned it before I was aware.
~ Jane Austen
But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
~ Jane Austen
Te equivocas, querida. Les tengo mucho respeto a tus nervios. Son viejos amigos míos. Hace por lo menos veinte años que te oigo mencionarlos con mucha consideración.
~ Jane Austen
One could argue that the human intellect was the greatest mistake in evolution—a mistake that is now threatening all life on the planet.
~ Jane Goodall
guess I left the wrong hole empty." She leaned forward to examine her handiwork. "Not bad for my first time with a gun. I shot that sucker right in the gumpy.
~ Janet Evanovich
Some men enter a woman's life and screw it up forever.
~ Janet Evanovich
Why does each man kill the thing he loves?...you killed it by accident. Thinking you were doing something else. It was a cherished vase that broke while you were cleaning it. The phone rang and you dropped it. Shattering, when all you wanted was to keep it safe.
~ Janet Fitch
Dincolo de toate temerile, avertiz?rile, Dincolo de toate, GreÈ™elile unei femei sunt diferite de cele ale unei fete, Sunt scrise cu foc în piatr?, Sunt o tr?s?tur?, nu o eroare.
~ Janet Fitch
And suddenly I felt panic. I'd made a mistake, like when I'd played chess with Ray and knew a second too late I'd made the wrong move. I had asked a question I couldn't afford to know the answer to. It was the thing I didn't want to know. The rock that never should be turned over. I knew what was under there. I didn't need to see it, the hideous eyelets albino creature that lived underneath.
~ Janet Fitch
Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.
~ Janet Frame
Unlike movies, on stage there are no second chances. Everything is live. If someone messes up, forgets a line, gives the wrong cue, you need to have the presence of mind to move the play along.
~ Poonam Dhillon