Quotes About Mistake

You ought to take more chances, I said. I took too many earlier, she said. I'm sorry.

With both the Indian and the women he was always left with the feeling that, without meaning to, he had made some kind of mistake.

It's my fault for not shooting the son of a bitch while he was drinking. I didn't know who he was at the time, but I should have shot him on suspicion. And then I plumb forgot about it all day. I'm getting too foolish to live.

We always have a choice. That's what Grady said too. What does that even mean? That there is a right thing to do and there is a wrong thing to do. Simple. Judgmental. And if you are the person someone is asking that question about, you have chosen wrong—as if the world is divided between the people who have never made a big mistake. And the people who have.

I don't deserve a second chance, but sometimes when someone doesn't, that's exactly when you need to give them one.

Cattle did not have to be led to water. They came eagerly to the trough and drank while Almanzo pumped, then they hurried back to the warm barns, and each went to its own place. Each cow turned into her own stall and put her head between her own stanchions. They never made a mistake. Whether this was because they had more sense than horses, or because they had so little sense that they did everything by habit, Father did not know.

Visions of such things would get you talking of demons, which Quinlan had done briefly. The police ignored him, and I didn't back up his story. Quinlan had never met a real demon, or he wouldn't have made the mistake. Once you've been in the presence of demons, you never forget it. I'd rather fight a dozen vampires than one demonic presence. They don't give a shit about silver bullets.

creeping dread that comes when you know you've been in the wrong and have no idea how to make it right again, because you weren't aware of having done anything wrong in the first place.

I get caught up in the excitement and clap like a little girl. This is my mistake, thinking I belong. I should have bolted for home immediately. But I don't. I hang around. I want to be a part of it all.

I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else.

I totally deserved this, I realized. I deserved to get captured in this shirt. I was roped in like a calf. Stupid. So stupid. Just because it was on sale, I had to try on a baby shirt. This was so completely my fault. Maybe I should go to Baby Gap tomorrow and try to get into some Onesies or a romper. What was I thinking? Really?

So where does the human error come in? Well, sometimes I buy a stamp and mount it in my album without troubling to log it in my catalog. And later I find it offered on somebody else's list, and see that it's one I don't have, and buy it again. And then when I go to mount the new copy in my album, there's one already there.

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

He's wrong he's so he's so wrong he's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow.

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore not beyond religion too.

For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake.

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

What happened?""I f***ed Titan.""Ah.""Actually, it was more like 'Yes, please, may I have another?

Dammit, Gage. What the hell were you thinking?""I wasn't, " he shouts. "I was upset she wanted to stay, and I lost it."Ethan scoffs. "Yeah, you did.""I'm an idiot.""Yeah, you are.""Shut up.