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Quotes About Mistake

It was intensely infuriating the way it always is when you call a man you shouldn't be calling.
~ Jennifer Belle
I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
But his words fall away. He looks confused. He looks flustered and sorry. Like you do when you run up to someone you think you know and take her arm and she turns around and you were wrong.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
He had known the rarest of things -love, real love - he'd held it in his hand and he'd thrown it away. What was left for him? A lifetime of second-bests
~ Jennifer Donnelly
She wrapped her hands around the bars, tears welling in her eyes. She'd been wrong, so wrong. Captain Krause and his men hadn't been pursuing her to hurt her; they'd been trying to rescue her
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Waiter, this is not the policeman I ordered. I wanted one with a lot less sauce.
~ Jennifer Echols
Son," he said, "you monkeyed up.
~ Jennifer Echols
What did Kevin Ye get arrested for anyway? Didn't he steal a car?" "He stole the driver's ed car." I laughed. Then I saw how Adam was looking at me. "He gave it back." "They MAKE you give stuff back, Lori, after they arrest you for stealing it.
~ Jennifer Echols
Mistake:the unshoveled snow was knee-deep.I kept right on wading through it. "This is because I'm a good person," I assured Doofus. "I am going to heaven,though hopefully not by way of the convent.
~ Jennifer Echols
And then my mom called, "Have fun on your date, Hayden!" Another step down and I thought, Good.Mom is mistaken and has led Nick to believe I'm going on a date. One more step down and I thought, Oh no,Mom has led Nick believe I'm going on a date!"
~ Jennifer Echols
After getting dressed at warp speed, I actually managed to drive all the way to high school before I realized I'd forgotten my morning coffee. Mystery, intrigue, and naked dreams aside, that didn't bode well for my chances at making it through the morning without killing myself. Or someone else.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
En ik zal voor altijd spijt hebben van wat ik je zus heb aangedaan.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Have you ever done something you regretted?' 'Does last year's school picture counts?
~ Jennifer Niven
Karen, you fuck up and I get sent to White Fang, Alaska as resident agent . . .
~ Elmore Leonard
Without error there can be no brilliancy
~ Emanuel Lasker
I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.
~ Emanuel Lasker
it was absurd to have killed a man for nothing...
~ Émile Zola 1840-1902
It expressed, plainer than words could do, the intense anguish at having made himself the instrument of thwarting his own revenge. Had it been dark, I dare say, he would have tried to remedy the mistake by smashing Hareton's skull on the steps; but we witnessed his salvation; and I was presently below with my precious charge pressed to my heart. Hindley descended more leisurely, sobered and abashed.
~ Emily Bronte
Perceiving myself in a blunder, I attempted to correct it. I might have seen there was too great a disparity between the ages of the parties to make it likely that they were man and wife. One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years. The other did not look seventeen.
~ Emily Bronte
If I've done wrong, I'm dying for it. It is enough! You left me too; but I won't upbraid you! I forgive you. Forgive me!
~ Emily Bronte
It was a mistake. You didn't try to hurt anyone.
~ Emily Giffin
I just think that I screwed up what could have turned into a more significant relationship, or at least a lasting friendship.
~ Emily Giffin
A big mistake. The kind of mistake that brews resentment and dangerous fissures. The kind of mistake that makes your heart ache. The kind of mistake that makes you long for another choice, the past, someone else.
~ Emily Giffin
I was tired," she says. "I made a mistake." "You're not tired anymore?" She doesn't say anything. Then she says, "I am. But it's OK.
~ Emma Donoghue