Quotes About Mistake

Hillary has described her yes vote as a 'mistake.' But the mistake was simply that she, like many other Democratic senators who couldn't imagine that a president would actually lie us into a war, gave George W. Bush the benefit of the doubt.

Upon the exposure of his bribery, it is reported he said, "I should have paid more.

Compliance with legitimate authority was also apparent in the strange case of the "rectal ear ache" (Cohen & Davis, 1981). A doctor ordered eardrops for a patient suffering infection in the right ear. On the prescription, the doctor abbreviated "place in right ear" as "place in R ear." Reading the order, the compliant nurse put the required drops in the compliant patient's rectum.

We already know how this one goes. Humans were once living a 'fairly comfortable life', subsisting from the blessings of Nature, but then we made our most fatal mistake. Lured by the prospect of a still easier life – of surplus and luxury, of living like gods – we had to go and tamper with that harmonious State of Nature, and thus unwittingly turned ourselves into slaves.

We already know how this one goes. Humans were once living a 'fairly comfortable life', subsisting from the blessings of Nature, but then we made our most fatal mistake. Lured by the prospect of a still easier life - of surplus and luxury, or living like gods - we had to go and tamper with hat harmonious State of Nature, and thus unwittingly turned ourselves into slaves.

judgments. A mistake, therefore, of right may become a species

I tried to think of a good reason as to why I had a sex book down my pants, but my brain refused to work.

Assume makes an ass out of you and me - p.239

So I asked the salesclerk for a jar of confiture de groseilles, which is pronounced "gro-zay." But with my less-than-stellar command of the language, I asked for "confiture de grosses selles" (which I pronounced as "gross sells"). The saleswoman's jaw nearly hit the counter: I'd ordered turd jam…make that big-turd jam.

the mistake of calling an assiette à soupe (soup plate) a soup bowl (bol) because it has sides to hold in soup.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

I knew there was no point in debating a man such as this. The world bent and contorted itself to fit his understanding, not the other way around. I could not make him see reason, could not make him regret his actions. It would be a mistake to try.

Emancipation was a mistake;" and these fast writers drew along with them a large body, who would fain be slaveholders themselves. We must never lose sight of the fact that though the majority perhaps are on the side of freedom, large numbers of Englishmen are not slaveholders only because the law forbids the practice

The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being

If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it's an error not an end.

We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god...is not helping him today.

The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's.

There's tons of stuff where you're like, "God, I wish I could take that back."

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.

"I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.

He who can see his own mistake can become absolute supreme Self (Parmatma)!