Quotes About Mistake

I was not the only one who made the mistake of thinking that, because it was something you talked about a lot, it was something you wouldn't do. And after all, you were not the unhappiest person we knew. You were not the most depressed (think of G, of D, or T-R). You were not even - strange as it now sounds to say - the most suicidal. Because of the timing, so near the start of the year, it was possible to think that it had been a resolution.

Unlike when a young person commits suicide, which could never be anything but a mistake.

It is a mistake to seek in fantasies the key to concrete behaviour; for fantasies are created and cherished as fantasies. The little girl who dreams of violation with mingled horror and acquiescence does not really wish to be violated and if such a thing should happen it would be a hateful calamity.

She could not escape asking (in the exact words and mental intonations which a thousand million women, dairy wenches and mischief-making queens, had used before her, and which a million million women will know hereafter), Was it all a horrible mistake, my marrying him? She quieted the doubt--without answering it.

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

I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. From His Last Bow

CREONTE Come posso sbagliare se obbedisco al mio stesso comando?» «EMONE Perché calpesti ciò che spetta agli dèi.»

TIRESIA Medita su questi portenti, figlio. È comune a tutti gli uomini errare. Ma, dopo che ha errato, non sarà stolto né infelice colui che vi rimedia e non resta irremovibile. L'ostinazione condanna alla stoltezza.»

A mistake isn't a mistake unless it can't be put right.

And this is the moment where I went wrong. This is the gut-churning, if-only instant. If I could go back in time, that's the moment I would march up to myself and say severely, Poppy, priorities . But you don't realize, do you? The moment happens, and you make your crucial mistake, and then it's gone and the chance to do anything about it is blown away.

Oh fuck. I shouldn't have said that.

Oh, my God, you smiled! Mr. American Frown actually smiled! Must have been a mistake. I'll speak to someone about it. Won't happen again. Well, good. Because you could do your face and injury, just smiling like that.

Just because of that one disastrous blind date she had last year, where the guy turned out to be fifty-nine, not thirty-nine (He claimed it was a typo. Yeah, I'm sure his finger just happened to slip two spaces to the left).

The moment happens, and you make your crucial mistake, and then it's gone and the chance to do anything about it is blown away.

Maybe sometimes in life you just miss your chance

Yes, I made the mistake of falling in love with a man without any feelings. Now it all makes sense.

OK. The trick is when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is not to overreact. Instead, keep your chin up and pretend nothing happened.

A mistake isn't a mistake." Guy pauses. "Unless it can't be put right." As he says the words, his eyes seem to hold an extra significance.

I suddenly hear his voice again: Round-robin emails are the work of the devil. And I sent one out in his name. To the whole company. Without consulting him. Oh

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

To err is common To all men, but the man who having erred Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.

Oh no no, I think I've just called down a dreadful curse upon myself

How sad when those who reason, reason wrong.