Quotes About Mistake

you Senators make a great mistake in ignoring what takes place in those low haunts. Nasty things have a way of not always staying at the bottom, you know - stir the pond and they rise to the top.

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

A high-quality asset can constitute a good or bad buy, and a low-quality asset can constitute a good or bad buy. The tendency to mistake objective merit for investment opportunity, and the failure to distinguish between good assets and good buys, get most investors in trouble.

Once I slew a man, and never do I wish to slay a man again, for it is bitter for the soul to think thereon.

thou hast found me an archer that will make thy wife to wring! I would that thou hadst ne'er said one word to me, or that I had never passed thy way, or e'en that my right forefinger had been stricken off ere that this had happened! In haste I smote, but grieve I sore at leisure!" And then, even in his trouble, he remembered the old saw that "What is done is done; and the egg cracked cannot be cured.

8000 B.C.: Mistaking Irish Channel for heavy fog, Scottish shepherds wander into Ireland. They miss their sheep and go home, but memory lingers for hours.

Strongest of Oak is the gallows Tighest of knots is the noose Why oh why did I kill that man Now I'll never get loose

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Sorry Marion.

People first abandon reason, and then become obstinate; and the deeper they are in error the more angry they are.

Allez-vous au plus vite - crac ! Oh, désolé, laissez-moi vous mettre une attelle, monsieur.

This was all horribly wrong. This was red wine with fish. This was a man wearing a dinner jacket and brown shoes. This was as wrong as things get.

I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

Perfectionism is a slow death....If everything were to turn out just as I would want it, just as I would plan, I would never experience anything new. My life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. When I make a mistake I experience something unexpected.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

But I was a fool, the biggest, damnedest, stupidest fool in thee whole world.

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

Gie'd her a total riddy

All conspiracy-spotting should start from the assumption that even an almighty cock-up is always more likely than a complex conspiracy.

I had been bigger sucker than a square mark. All he loses is scratch. I had joined a club that suckered me behind bars fives times.

May 1992, I made that bad decision to involve a group of people who wanted to use guns, because that was their method of robbery." I told the commissioners, "That was the manner of person I was back then. Today, twenty-one years later, that's not the same person you see sitting before you.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Deudor: un burro en un atolladero.

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,... of searching and experimenting,... of saying No to any authority — literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political.