Quotes About Mistake

I'm afraid you made a serious mistake today. Sire? You proved yourself extraordinarily capable, Captain, Albion said. I can hardly let something like that go unremarked. I don't understand, sir, Grimm said, frowning. Captain, your clarity of thought in the face of unexpected disaster is a rare quality. It's a poor reward for such heroism, but I'm afraid that I must insist upon continuing to use you for the good of my Spire.

When you assume, you make an ass out of you and umption.

I know I've screwed up," I said. "I'm going to have to live with that. But I don't want to lose you.

I wanted to kick myself. Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of its idiot.

They say screwy things, make odd choices which, in retrospect, they feel amazingly foolish for making.

I spent my lifetime fighting the darkness without becoming the darkness. Maybe I had faltered at the very end. Maybe I had finally come up against something that made me cross the line-but even then, I hadn't turned into a degenerate freakazoid of the Kemmler variety. One mistake at the end of my life couldn't erase all the times I had stood unmoved at the edge of the abyss and made snide remarks at its expense.

I had this teacher who kept telling me that if I was ever in a fair fight, someone had made a mistake," she said

One mistake at the end of my life couldn't erase all the times I had stood unmoved at the edge of the abyss and made snide remarks at its expense.

A big assumption. And when you assume, you make an ass out of you and umption.

Why the desire for death. A clean paper or pure white wall. One false line, a scratch, a mistake. Unerasable. So obscureby adding million other tracings, blend it, cover over. But the original scratch remains, written in gold blood, shining. Desire for a Perfect Life.

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it.

Conventional wisdom suggests that the antidote to religious fundamentalism is more secularism. But that is a very big mistake. The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

it's my own *** fault.

The error, if it was an error, had been there from the beginning. I left it as it was. Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.

you didn't intend to hit him, but you did hit him and he died as a result. Unfortunately in this case, whenever that happens there are consequences.

But if you could travel back through Time, and find yourself as you used to be, wouldn't you try, just once at least, to give her some kind of warning? Wouldn't you want to make things right?

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

Leave it to a man to mess things up

I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.

Don't make the mistake of hurting someone who loves you, for someone who hurts you and dosent love you at all.

Cheating someone is a choice not a mistake.

If someone makes a mistake and learns from it they tend to not make the same mistake again. If they do make the same mistake again is it still a mistake?

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

You have to change your ID, because they made a mistake. You are not 60. You are just a 40 year old with 20 years of experience.