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Quotes About Mistake

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
~ Jimmy Breslin
We were having the best time working together, too, except when he'd make a mistake on an order and I'd have to be an advocate for my customer. I always mentioned it sweetly. "You didn't say hold the bacon, Hope." "Barverman, I said it twice." "You must have said it to someone else." "I said it to you ." Clang. " Don't clang pots at me.
~ Joan Bauer
People who have good taste are bound to make a mistake now and then, because they're human, and when they do it's a horrendous one. It's so ugly you can't believe it. On the other hand people who have terrible taste are bound to make a mistake and buy something exquisite—and you can't possibly understand how that could happen!
~ Joan Crawford
That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.
~ Joan Didion
It's like I'm carrying around this huge secret that I'm never supposed to tell. But since I don't remember just what I'm supposed to keep secret, I'm afraid I'll tell it by mistake.
~ Joan Frances Casey
Cowboys are always leaping from their horses in the movies, and they never get hurt." "You forgot to roll." "Oh. I knew I did something wrong.
~ Joan Johnston
This whole situation is like a great big zit that needs popping," she continued. "The damage is already done—your face looks like shit and no concealer's gonna cover it. You might as well squeeze hard and get your money shot. You'll both feel better afterward.
~ Joanna Wylde
It seems weird that an educational establishment would use the wrong spelling on purpose, but there you go.
~ Joanne Rocklin
Letting a cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it back.
~ Ann Major
possible mistake, the tiredness of having spent weeks barely sleeping on someone else's couch, her father's gone-ness.
~ Ann Napolitano
I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
~ Ann Richards
Forgive me that I felt forsaken, That grief and angst was all I knew. Forgive me that I kept mistaking Too many other men for you.
~ Anna Akhmatova
That was a mistake: to have been emotional, to have been seen and heard to be emotional,
~ Anna Burns
Bon. Il ne te reste plus que cinq minutes pour arriver à prononcer une phrase de sept mots, c'est faisable, non? Allez, badinait-il pour de faux, si c'est trop, sept, trois me suffiraient...Mais les bons, hein? Merde! J'ai pas composté mon billet...Alors?
~ Anna Gavalda
They'd jumped into his car and sped off onto the motorway, heading in the wrong direction for ten minutes before they even noticed.
~ Anna Smith
Hard to hide a weapon after you've shot yourself in the head.
~ Anna Smith
If what Picasso proposed is true, that the first stroke on the canvas is always a mistake, it is best to get on with the mistake, without delay, earlier rather than later. Write one sentence, make one choice or point at something and say "Yes." And then, as the process unfolds, and as long as I keep at it and stay attentive and resolute, making adjustments to each mistake, things eventually fall into place.
~ Anne Bogart
I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.
~ Anne Fadiman
There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.
~ Anne Holm
He was so cute when he was wrong...
~ Anne Taintor
Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
~ Anne Tyler
Ein Kennzeichen davon, daß man noch auf eigene Werke vertraut, ist, daß sich bei einem ?Fehltritt die Hoffnung vermindert.? Worte der Weisheit HIKAM ? von Ibn Ata'Allah al-Iskandari
~ Annemarie Schimmel
Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
~ Annie Dillard
This phenomenon is known as omission-commission bias.
~ Annie Duke