Quotes About Mistake

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Mitch Rapp)

I know you think this merciless to those at home. And yet I tell you that at times Father himself felt vaguely that he had made a mistake and had taken the wrong side. But he tried to reconcile irreconcilable things, and...he had not as much firmness of character as he seemed

But…" said the lion "you had told us that elephants never jump…"."I know…" said the elephant shyly "But I forgot".

The old sorceress was not given to berating herself herself, but she could not help but think she had made a mistake. Possibly the worst of her whole life.

I saw houses burned by the Mujahadeen, as well as disfigured bodies of prisoners they'd taken. But I saw other things too: villages destroyed by our shelling and bodies of women, killed by mistake. When you shoot at every rustling in the bushes, there's no time to think about who's there. But for an Afghan, it didn't matter if his wife had been killed intentionally or accidentally. He went into the mountains to see revenge.

Someone once said that a minesweeper makes only two mistakes: the first is when he decides to be one. The second …

No. My fault. I didn't. Have to. Smoke.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

I'm afraid there are no replays or second chances in amateur or professional golf, and that's the way it should be.

I made a terrible mistake last Christmas. My wife made me swear that I wouldn't give her a fancy gift. And I didn't.

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

I'm justthe reason they married.Mum saysI was a surprise.Dad saysI was an accident.Truth is ...I am their mistake.

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

What do you do with the kid who can't read?... You find a pay phone as fast as you can and rectify your idiotic mistake.

This always happened. No matter how much Wally tried to stay out of trouble, he didn't.

But the centaurs ran the wrong way, back toward

As one veteran of the Dardanelles said, war produces two kinds of muddle: the "Ordinary Military Cock Up" (OMCU) and the "Inextricable Balls Up" (IBU).138 In every respect apart from the final withdrawal, conducted with stealth and speed at the end of the year, Gallipoli was an IBU.