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Quotes About Mistake

TEACHER: Kevin, how do you spell crocodile? KEVIN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L. TEACHER: No, I'm sorry, that's wrong. KEVIN: It can't be. You asked me how I spell it!
~ Unknown
Wha--huh? You've made a mistake? You? Wait... The world isn't ending. Big Ben's Infinity Day Clock has stopped. You can't have made a mistake. It's simply not... possible. It's a day just like any other day. - Evaline, to Mina
~ Colleen Gleason
Je me suis trompé jusqu'ici; en voilà un qui est plus méchant. »
~ Comte de Lautreamont
It's a mistake to read. Television is the only way.
~ Conan O'Brien
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
~ Confucius
You have no idea what you have done.
~ Conn Iggulden
HE HAD SIGNED her own death-warrant. He kept telling himself over and over that he was not to blame, she had brought it on herself. He had never seen the man. He knew there was one. He had known for six weeks now. Little things had told him. One day he came home and there was a cigar-butt in an ashtray, still moist at one end, still warm at the other.
~ Cornell Woolrich
The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.
~ Courtney Summers
That place that I had been most sure that I was right was the place that I was most wrong.
~ Craig Groeschel
Like a sneeze, sin feels good at first, but it leaves a huge mess.
~ Craig Groeschel
no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused. 
~ Craig Johnson
Subí a mi habitación y me serví un whisky. Gran error: al primer trago me entraron arcadas. Me estaba haciendo viejo para aquellos trotes.
~ Unknown
Any time you try to fix something before you understand how it works, you will only succeed by accident,
~ Unknown
Even a mistake is better than nothing.
~ Craig Thompson
Os pido que me excuseis, señor. No lo he hecho a propósito.
~ Unknown
It was stupid, she now understood, to think that privilege translated to protection. To mistake privilege for grace.
~ Unknown
Aw, man, Ava, I should've gotten my own room!" Sully groaned. She
~ Unknown
I can be the best mistake you ever make, I assure you of that.
~ Unknown
When you say something stupid, gloss over it with superfast talking and maybe no one'll notice.
~ Cynthia Lord
People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips
~ Cynthia Ozick
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.
~ Cyril Connolly
No one is exempt from talking nonsense the mistake is to do it solemnly.
~ Unknown
She had made a fool of the whole thing by asking old Durnet and Mrs. Goldsmith. The former was practically an imbecile in Mr. Bulmer's opinion—a good many people were practically imbeciles in Mr. Bulmer's opinion.
~ D.E. Stevenson
One or two hostesses were so misguided as to insist on the Abbotts accepting their hospitality, but they did not repeat their mistake. Barbara was genuinely tired after her long days in the open air, and her bridge was so deplorable that even her best friends were annoyed.
~ D.E. Stevenson