Quotes About Mistake

The second type of failure the philosophers call ineptitude—because in these instances the knowledge exists, yet we fail to apply it correctly.

They'd not only nearly killed the man but also failed to recognize how.

feared that the autopsy would uncover an error.

said Gennie was in the hospital because she had swallowed poison, by accident. Iodine, from the medicine chest. "But what kind of house is that for a young girl to grow up in? How could she make such a mistake, poor thing? Wasn't her stepmother home?

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

I slipped on a turtleneck, laughing when my head became stuck in the turtle part. If they weren't called turtlenecks, I wouldn't have worn them.

Not long thereafter Lawson committed an indiscretion that left him issuing solemn apologies to the London ministry. He acknowledged having dishonored his profession with his "uneven and unwary conversation." He battled for several years to clear his name.

The First Mistake in Public Business Is the Going into It

Zeus sighed heavily. 'I wish, all those years ago, Prometheus hadn't persuaded me to make mankind,' he said. 'I knew it was a mistake.

Patience gives your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. When a mistake is made, it chooses to give them more time that they deserve to correct it. It gives you the ability to hold on during the rough times in your relationship rather than bailing out under the pressure.

Like the scorpion said to the maiden as she lay dying, 'You knowed I was poison when you picked me up.' 

I'm sorry I didn't know it was an elephant; I thought it was part of the furniture!

HEY, BOBBY TERRY, YOU SCROOOOWED IT UP!

Love is the enemy. Yes...the poets continually and sometimes willfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer. Love is not blind. Love is a cannibal with extremely acute vision. Love is insectile; it is always hungry.

losers so dumb that they mistook wrapping themselves in the chains of addiction as an act of rebellion.

The fucking you got was never worth the screwing you took.

There's one good thing about a mistake. As long as you're alive, you still have time to fix it.

The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest.

One mistake cannot justify another.

A slip of the foot is better than a slip of the tongue.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Lookin' for love in all the wrong places, no fine girls just ugly faces.