Quotes About Mistake

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

A second chance doesn't mean anything if you haven't learned from your first mistake.

Everyone can make the wrong decision—in fact, everyone will sometimes make a wrong decision. But no one needs to make a decision which, on its face, falls short of satisfying the boundary conditions.

He was wrong. I had managed to take everything apart. I was no Tailor. I was a Killer.

when you assume you make an ass of u and me—

My diaries are full of such missed opportunities, but the stock market is merciful—it always gives the nincompoop a second chance.

This is a crucial safeguard of our capitalist system, because if shareholders could be sued whenever a company made a mistake, people like you and me would be afraid to buy shares and become investors.

I said that his dogs seemed fierce, and he grinned. Just playful, he said. But what about the time one of them had escaped and attacked the old man? Ah, that. He shook his head at the painful memory. The trouble is, he said, you should never turn your back on a playful dog, and that had been the old man's mistake. Une vraie catastrophe.

Cabe decir que los genios tienen más posibilidades de incurrir en el error que la media.

I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn't any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.

The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.

The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.

The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.

So. Now you know the worst thing I have ever done. I fucked my own family's dinner.

Now – those who got it right. On the count of three, I'd like you to sit down if you'd seen the question before. 1, 2, 3!"  Everyone who was standing sits down. This gets a huge laugh. The students who got the answer wrong suddenly feel much better about their mistake: in a Harvard class, not a single person got it right unless they had seen it before.

Getting beyond the sanitized Thanksgiving myth to tell a more accurate history of that encounter involves reckoning with a point made by many Wampanoags today: that their storied welcome to the English was a terrible mistake, born out of the horror of a disease without a name.

It all started, like so many family stories, with a plausible fiction - honest mistake, faulty memory, bit of embroidered imagination that got repeated so many times it became family truth.

The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.

arrears , n . My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

vagary, n. The mistake is in thinking there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.

I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.

Fallible, adj. I was hurt. Of course I was hurt. But in a perverse way, I was relieved that you were the one who mad the mistake. It made me worry less about myself.

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

He was this constant, living reminder of my biggest mistake.