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Quotes About Mistake

You ever notice something about humans? You ask them, if they could go back and live any day over again, what would they do? It's always to go back and fix something, as if they know precisely the moment when everything went wrong.
~ Martha Williamson
The CIA later found out that Sandoz had never produced LSD in quantities even remotely resembling ten kilograms. Apparently only ten milligrams were for sale, but a CIA contact in Switzerland mistook a kilogram, 1000 grams, for a milligram (.001 grams), which would explain the huge discrepancy.
~ Unknown
Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
on November 6: in the rapidity and confusion of the advance, Douglas MacArthur, commanding an infantry brigade, was taken prisoner by his own side. Thinking he was a German officer, vigilant American sentries brought him in at pistol point. The mistake was quickly discovered, once MacArthur had taken off his unusual floppy hat and long scarf.
~ Martin Gilbert
If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
~ Marva Collins
Sometimes people get angry and do things they shouldn't. Things they regret.
~ Mary Alice Monroe
St. Peter scold me saying son, where have you been? And he saw me with you and asked why are you with that person? and I said to him sorry St. Peter, I though it was heaven.
~ Anonymous
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
~ Rudyard Kipling
It's hard to pull your foot out of your mouth... ...when your head is up your ass.
~ Unknown
Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
~ Franklin P Jones
Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl
~ Stephen Leacock
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
~ Henry Youngman
If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.
~ William Shakespeare
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I knew I had made a big mistake, but it was a glorious one, and I wanted to make it over and over again.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Deliberate deception is not a mistake. It's calculating and cold. Especially when aimed at the one you profess to love. And if one can't be trusted in love, one can't be trusted in anything
~ Mary E. Pearson
Lady Alys, you have dimples," he said accusingly. Caught, Alys blushed. "I'm sorry, I can't help it. I think God made a mistake and gave me someone else's dimples.
~ Mary Jo Putney
I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.
~ Mary Stewart
There is no alarm clock like embarrassment,
~ Unknown
Every move had been a mistake, every decision a disaster, every day a retreat from who she'd imagined she'd be.
~ Matt Haig
The thing you have to remember is that this is an opportunity and it is rare and we can undo any mistake we made, live any life we want. Any life. Dream big . . . You can be anything you want to be. Because in one life, you are.
~ Matt Haig
I regret my financial mismanagement.
~ Matt Haig
who treated Nora like a mistake in need of correction.
~ Matt Haig
The thing you have to remember is that this is an opportunity and it is rare and we can undo any mistake we made, live any life we want. Any life. Dream big . . . You can be anything you want to be. Because in one life, you are.
~ Matt Haig