Quotes About Mistake

There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application.

Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.

Sometimes in life, you make a mistake and there's no buts and no explanations … There's no peace in 'I'm sorry, but.' You can't find peace until you truly understand that the only thing to say is, 'I'm sorry,' period. ~ John Lucas, as quoted in 'The Punch' by John Feinstein

I thought told you to watch where you put your feet," he said accusingly. Erak shrugged. I did," he replied ruefully. "But while I was busy watching the ground, I hit that branch with my head. Broke it clean in two." Halt raised his eyebrows. "I assume you're not talking about your head," he muttered. Erak frowned at the suggestion. Of course not," he replied. More's the pity," Halt told him.

Does your friend ever say anything?' the fat man asked. Aloom set down the piece of bread he had just rolled round several chunks of meat and gave an exasperated sigh. 'I heard him say oops! once, when he cut the ears off someone who was asking too many questions.

I did," he replied ruefully. "But while I was busy watching the ground, I hit that branch with my head. Broke it clean in two.

Ooit heb ik hem "Oeps" horen zeggen, toen hij de oren afsneed van iemand die te veel vragen stelde. - Aloom over Will

Anyone can make a mistake. It's how they learn from it and recover from it that shows their true worth.

Et ies nit oe, 'eren, toekestan de passee mon broek zondèr me betaal de tolle!

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

But it is a sad and fatal mistake to treat those other ways [atonement theories] as though they lay on the same plane with this one foundation way [penal substitutionary theory]; in reality the other "theories" of the atonement lose all their meaning unless they are taken in connection with this blessed "theory".

This man knocked on the wrong door." A perfect silence, Hunt's heart swelling with respect. "This man died looking for his daughter.

I'd skimmed along life like a surfer, mistaking speed for direction. I'd feigned to be pressing forward when I was really running away

Los planes no sirven de nada cuando doblas la esquina equivocada a una hora demasiado tardía de la noche en un mundo lleno de rabia».

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

Others were simply possessed by a feeling that they had made a catastrophic mistake. They had made an irreversible error in coming to England, and their lives would never recover - their lives would never again be their lives, but the story of this huge mistake that they had made.

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

Telling the truth when you've done something wrong is the most terrifying thing in the world.

The Vineyard is a great place to live… until you screw up.

Sorry. I seem to have caused a mess our last time around.

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

With all my might, I heave the axe into the ice, just inches from Kristoff's head. Oops.

acknowledges that Napoleon stands fully justified in making that peace. I cannot expect so much justice in an Englishman. He would rather bury his past mistake in a present mistake than simply confess it.