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Quotes About Mistake

I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's in biology. So I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.
~ Gary Larson
I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.
~ Joe Cornish
Stop right there, that's exactly where I lost it See that line? I never should've crossed it Stop right there, I never should've said that It's the very moment that I wish that I could take back
~ relient k
Some things can't be undone.
~ Reyna Grande
Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like one of those weird experiences you read about in the Penthouse Forum. I had taken off his witch doctor's mask and made him human. But I didn't hold it against him. To err is only human, but it's divine to forgive. I believe that sincerely.
~ Richard Bachman
The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).
~ Richard Baxter
As one can hardly find any thing in a house where nothing keeps its place, but all is cast on a heap together; so it is in the heart where all things are in disorder, especially when darkness is added to this disorder: so that the hear t is like an obscure cave or dungeon, where there is but a little crevice of light, and a man must rather grope than see No wonder if men mistake in searching such a heat, sand so miscarry in judging of their estate (304).
~ Richard Baxter
Whoopsidaisies!
~ Richard Curtis
You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I... I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And I'm afraid it's stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. It's a terrible thing to know, but I know it.
~ Richard Curtis
Oh damn! One measly civil war in the entire history of England and I'm on the wrong bloody side!
~ Richard Curtis
It is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong.
~ Richard Llewellyn
the greatest flaw of the species is its overwhelming tendency to mistake agreement for truth.
~ Richard Powers
To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs.
~ Richard Powers
In fact, it's Douggie's growing conviction that the greatest flaw of the species is its overwhelming tendency to mistake agreement for truth.
~ Richard Powers
fact, it's Douggie's growing conviction that the greatest flaw of the species is its overwhelming tendency to mistake agreement for truth.
~ Richard Powers
Before transformation, sin is any kind of moral mistake; afterward, sin is a mistake about who you are and whose you are.
~ Richard Rohr
You cannot avoid sin or mistake anyway (Romans 5:12), but if you try too fervently, it often creates even worse problems.
~ Richard Rohr
More painful than her naivete is the fact that she doesn't believe herself to be naive. Should you make the mistake of asking her why she's doing something so stupid, she'll explain it to you.
~ Richard Russo
But I'll feel better about you in Connecticut. People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake. They can devote their whole lives to it.
~ Richard Russo
I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
~ Richard Wright
Nico wasn't sure whether to kick himself or Will Solace. If he hadn't been so distracted bickering with the son of Apollo, he would never have allowed the enemy to get so close.
~ Rick Riordan
Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.
~ Rick Riordan
Yeah, my bad, Leo muttered. I should've crashed on one of the other islands. Oh, wait-there aren't any! She [Calypso] snarled and kept walking along the edge of the water.
~ Rick Riordan
As for me, I did the stupidest thing in my life, which is saying a lot. I attacked the Titan Lord Atlas.
~ Rick Riordan