Quotes About Mistake

that experience of getting it wrong that makes me know what's right.

You are struck with a sour feeling of regret for a mistake you did not commit: You are not responsible for what happened.

O greseala te duce spre alta, o minciuna urmeaza alteia si astfel adevarul nu mai poate iesi la lumina.

The Democrats' tactical mistake was to pitch another Clinton, closely linked to the political and financial establishment, against an anti-establishment candidate.

Entirely too many people mistake confidence for competence.

There are some things you can't un-fuck.

This was arguably the most disgraceful episode in the bishop's chequered career,

Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

It is a mistake," Labruyère tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune.

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one.

We desire some pleasure, and the material means of obtaining it are lacking. "It is a mistake," Labruyère tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune." There is nothing for it but to attempt a gradual elimination of our desire for that pleasure.

When we are overtaken with a sin, we sometimes fail to analyze how we fell. This is to our great disadvantage. We repent of the sin, but we do not consider the temptation that was the cause of it.

I think [doubt is] perceived in this culture as something weak or denatured, and that's a huge mistake. Conviction is what you do to be comfortable, to write The End on thinking. Doubt keeps you in the present, it keeps you conscious and reacting to and acting on what is going on now. It's work, and people like to avoid work.

Heroes happen because somebody made a mistake.

If knew you were going to drug me, kidnap me, and take me back to the dark ages with out my pants, I never would have slept with you.

Wow, really?" I said, before I could stop myself. "I used the wrong word, didn't I," Davidson said, looking at me. "I can never remember if 'clank' or 'threep' is the word I'm not supposed to be using today.

It's funny to me that when people fuck up, they think 'it was just business' is in any way a defense.

And it had worked; he had looked like a fool when he attempted to call out the general. What I and the general had underestimated were the number of other assembly members who would willingly continue to follow a fool.

Let's still not ever do this again, Wilson said to himself. Agreed, himself said back.

What could I say? One doesn't tear up a large lenght of expensive silk into quite small pieces and drop them on the ground by mistake.

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

You think it was a sin to let my wife die like that?'' "Well,'' said Casy, "for anybody else it was a mistake, but if you think it was a sin—then it's a sin. A fella builds his own sins right up from the groun'.

I ain't never done nothin' that wasn't part sin.

He had mistaken the two of them for one and entrusted to her this ghost of his alone. A mistake married people make.