Quotes About Mistake

Members of the court still talked in whispers of the lady-in-waiting who had accidentally worn mismatched stockings to an afternoon tea. They said she made a lovely rosebush, always festooned with stunning flowers in two slightly different colors of peach. Beka didn't aspire to be a rosebush.

Since antisemitism affects Jews, some readers may be inclined to think that only Jews should be concerned. That would be a mistake. Jews, as the intended target of the antisemite, may indeed be more sensitive to it. Such is the case with any expression of particular hatred and prejudice.

Then I made the cardinal mistake of showing and telling him and her how I felt. That pushed them closer together.

My fault, again. Dr. Blake said I also handled the beads incident wrong when I reported that a couple of weeks later.

The tragic illusion of everyday life is that we mistake shadow for reality. It is impossible to be outside the web woven of love, and at moments when evens throw us too far into oblivion, a message comes to day, "You are loved.

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

She knew that everything he did was wrong and the fault was hers. He pulled his notebook out of his pocket, stupidly.

Kay got off the bus at the Squinty Bridge and walked across the river to Broomielaw. A brisk wind streamed across the river from the broad plane of Govan, rising up the boom of the flats. Even in the deep doorway, it lifted the tail of her coat and blew her hair up over her ears. Cars passed quickly, anticipating the motorway five hundred yards away. Kay told herself that this was a mistake but she pressed the buzzer anyway.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

You can cross the line but you can also be forgiven.

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the error of blaming it on the computer.

Every mistake committed is a learning opportunity.

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

That placing trust in a word like border had been a mistake, a trap. A slow unraveling of terms unrecognized until too late.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

Oh, what the hell." She stepped in and pressed the button. Maybe using the word hell was her mistake. The doors closed and then opened again, filling with smoke that wound its way around her shoulders and down her body before she could react. She found herself being pulled forward. Hades's face suddenly appeared inches from her own. "Hello there, Meg-let. Miss me?

he had no idea what to say to her anyway. We made a mistake warred with We have just enough time for another good go. Experience told him both approaches were very wrong.