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Quotes About Mistake

Now, sorry about that kill-on-sight business.
~ Rick Riordan
We'de have to get in and get out the hard way; and if we made a mistake, there was no telling what sort of curse we'de unleash: monster guardians, plagues, fires, exploding donkeys(don't laugh; they're bad news).
~ Rick Riordan
I got ready for bed and crawled in. The covers were comfortable and warm, but the pillow was just too weird. It gave me neck cramps, so I put it on the floor and went to sleep without it. My first big mistake.
~ Rick Riordan
Should I get you a shovel so you can dig that hole a little deeper?
~ Rick Riordan
The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.
~ Rick Riordan
I can't summon anymore gas! Leo warned. The His faced turned red. 'Wow, that came out wrong. I mean the burning kind.
~ Rick Riordan
Don't blame me for you robbing the king's treasury! I snarled. You are here because you messed up. I prayed to you! Well, perhaps you didn't pray for the right thing at the right time! I yelled. Pray for wisdom before you do something stupid! Don't pray for me to bail you out after you followed your worst instincts!
~ Rick Riordan
Okay. But...go easy. We don't want another Albania." "No," Reyna agreed. Their first shadow-travel experience together, two days ago, had been a total fiasco, possibly the most humiliating episode in Reyna's long career. Perhaps someday, if they survived, they would look back on it and laugh, but not now. The three of them had agreed never to speak of it. What happened in Albania would stay in Albania.
~ Rick Riordan
The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God.
~ Rick Warren
She no longer recognized herself, she thought. She had taken the wrong path, opened the wrong door, and was unable to find her way back.
~ Kate Atkinson
She had taken the wrong path, opened the wrong door, and was unable to find her way back. Suddenly
~ Kate Atkinson
I intended lilies, said the magician. but in the clutches of a desparate desire to do something extraordinary, I called down a greater magic and inadvertently caused you a profound harm. I will now try to undo what I have done.
~ Kate DiCamillo
it." "You dirty
~ Kate DiCamillo
Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.
~ Katherine Paterson
My daddy is a mistake for a person.
~ Kaye Gibbons
You see it in films sometimes, when one person's pointing a gun at another person, and the one with the gun's making the other one do all kinds of things. Then suddenly there's a mistake, a tussle, and the gun's with the second person. And the second person looks at the first person with a gleam, a kind of can't-believe-my-luck expression that promises all kinds of vengeance.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
A fost ca la È™ah, când faci o miÈ™care È™i, chiar în clipa în care îÈ›i iei degetul de pe pies?, îÈ›i dai seama de greÈ™eala f?cut? È™i intri în panic?, fiindc? nu cunoÈ™ti înc? dimensiunea dezastrului pe care l-ai provocat f?r? s? vrei.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
like they were in a play and he'd forgotten his lines.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
For a long time, I was very unhappy, very unhappy indeed. ... occasions now and then -- extremely desolate occasions -- when you think to yourself: What a terrible mistake I've made with my life. And you get to thinking about a different life, a better life you might have had.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Así que si lo he entendido bien..., bien, pues parece que he desperdiciado mi oportunidad.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Chloe? It's me. After a pause, he added, Derek, like I could mistake that deep rumble for anyone else, like I could mistake that little part of me that perked up like an eager puppy saying, It's him. Quick! Go see what he wants. God, how had I been so blind? It seemed so obvious now.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I screwed up. Again. You're shocked, I'm sure.
~ Kelley Armstrong
It's so easy to screw up. To make a choice that seems right. Then time passes and you look back and you say, 'How the hell did I do that?' Attitudes change. Insights change. Eventually things you were so damned sure were right become...incomprehensible.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I'll keep it in my bedside drawer, in case I'm woken in the middle of the night and mistake the cat for an intruder. An honest accident." "You're not shooting the cat. It would leave a mess.
~ Kelley Armstrong