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Quotes About Mistake

WAITER: [serving Jack's drink] ... and one Shirley Temple. JACK: [sips drink] Wait a minute! You put Scotch in this Shirley Temple! WAITER: She's a big girl, now.
~ Jack Benny
Your plan appears to be sound, as well as potentially very destructive. I see that it is a mistake to offend you." "Yes, yes, it is," Mari agreed, a smile flickering briefly to life. "Stay on my good side and you won't have to worry about it.
~ Jack Campbell
never attribute to malice that which could be explained by stupidity.
~ Jack Campbell
soldiers made up an amazing ten per cent of the army's troops, the high command accepted they were wrong to
~ Jack Goldstein
She'd intended to sign with an escort service, but fucked up and immediately acquired a heroin habit which detoured her career to a massage parlor, cranking out handjobs like Dunkin' cranked out donuts.
~ Unknown
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
~ Jack Lemmon
deep regret, "none of this would ever have happened.
~ Unknown
Si descubría nuevos mundos, poco importaba que fuese por error.
~ Jack Williamson
You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, you fall, but maybe it is not such a sore fall because you have slipped.
~ Jackie Kay
A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl--the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.
~ Unknown
Lani felt certain that hers and Dawson's worlds would never collide. She was wrong.
~ Lurlene McDaniel
How can she eat this fish, cooling on a slab of marble? And yet the fish, too, motionless as it is, and dismantled from its bones, and fleeced of its silver skin, has never been so completely alone as it is now: violated in a final manner and regarded with a weary eye by this woman who has made the latest mistake of her day and done this to it.
~ Lydia Davis
él es un fantasma recién muerto. Se convirtió en fantasma porque equivocó el momento de su muerte.
~ Unknown
Have you tried to talk to her?" "What would you like me to say Bastian? OH, I'M SORRY, INEZ. I DIDN'T MEAN TO BITE YOU, MY FANGS SLIPPED.
~ Lynsay Sands
If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it's an error not an end.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
A hurtful statement can be called a mistake. But a repeated pattern of hurtful statements or uncaring attitudes or even unjust expectations is much more than a mistake. These patterns are misuses of the purposes of a relationship. Why is this so crucial to understand? Because unchecked misuse of a relationship can quickly turn into abuse in a relationship.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Make no mistake: being lulled into a false sense of security is worse than going through the process of suffering.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
with himself for getting so drunk the
~ M. William Phelps
We are sorry, we are sorry. Sorry you were caught, I said. Sorry that you thought I was weak, but you were wrong.
~ Madeline Miller
I fear I have robbed them not only of their youth but their age as well.
~ Madeline Miller
He thought, as the locked truck slid and hit: Too much time staring at the pretty girl, Cherrik. Too much dreaming. Too old, Cherrik. Too damn old.
~ John D. MacDonald
the Germans, complacently sure it was uncrackable, were careless in its use.
~ John Gribbin
I was guilty all right. Guilty of stupidity for allowing myself to fall into such a mess.
~ John Grisham
About a month later, Riggins changed his mind. In an interview with the police, he said he was incorrect about Ron Williamson, that in fact the man he heard doing the confessing was Glen Gore.
~ John Grisham