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Quotes About Mistake

Sometimes, even though you know something is a mistake, you can't stop yourself from going there.
~ Sarah Mayberry
Couldn't he have checked his shoelaces BEFORE entering a dark, super-creepy cave?
~ Sarah Mlynowski
I think we — well, I — messed up the story.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.
~ Saul Bellow
He thought for a while of Mithradates, whose system learned to thrive on poison. He cheated assassins, who made the mistake of using small doses, and was pickled, not destroyed. Tutto fa brodo.
~ Saul Bellow - Herzog
Honor's face turned bright red. Her knuckles went white. "Yes," Honor said. "I understand, Mister Gibbons." Gibbons nodded, making the common mistake of thinking that understanding and agreeing were the same thing.
~ Scott Meyer
This isn't on you,' he told her. It was nothing more than wicked coincidence. UCAs got made most often by cops or prosecutors who recognized them.
~ Scott Turow
Even if Man's accustomed to take His small world for the Whole, that's his mistake:
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God knows why I should be that foolish
~ Johanna Lindsey
The seasons are no longer what they once were,But it is the nature of things to be seen only once,As they happen along, bumping into other things, getting alongSomehow. That's where Orpheus made his mistake.
~ John Ashbery
It still stops my having any feeling of pride when people think well of what I do, for I say to myself: Since any small good deed I do can be mistaken for a fault, the mistake of calling a fault a virtue can be made just as easily.
~ John Beevers
It is a mistake to think of publicity supplanting the visual art of post-Renaissance Europe; it is the last moribund form of that art.
~ John Berger
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
~ John C. Maxwell
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
~ John Cage
Computer mistake in grade-giving resulted in academic failure of several brilliant students. After some years the mistake was discovered. Letter was sent to each student inviting him to resume his studies. Each replied he was getting along very well without education.
~ John Cage
Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.
~ John Cleese
We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere." "Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in Hell.
~ John Connolly
He wouldn't be the first man to have died from dropping a lit joint.
~ John Connolly
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
~ John Donne
She hugg'd the offender, and forgave the offense:Sex to the last.
~ John Dryden
Your ego wants to move through life risk-free, foolish-free, discouragement-free, mistake-free, tired-free.
~ Christine Kane
Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.
~ David Niven
..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.
~ Gayle Forman