Quotes About Miscalculation

Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.

You punched him by accident.

You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!

It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.

Obviously I was mistaken.

Alas, hoist with my own petard.

After I disappeared, the locals put two and two together and got seven.

I made the miscalculation of taking Mr. Rubio at his word that he wouldn't seek re-election if he lost the presidential primary.

To survive, life has to win every day. Death has to win just once. A small error or miscalculation can wipe out all the successes. The negativity bias is adaptive, the term biologists use for a trait that improves the odds of survival for an individual or a group.

i was so confused that i did a flying roundhouse kick at the wall. my leg went through the wall

The Lincoln Project is the brainchild of embittered former GOP grifters who failed to anticipate the Trump phenomenon and were not talented enough to overcome their miscalculation. Trump derangement is the only occupation open to their washed-up careers, so they are doomed forever to tilt at windmills.

Your calculations are off. This merits a triple fuckdamn at least.

What we hold to be the result of a malign intervention could only make sense as an ordinary miscalculation, as an error, but now we find ourselves in the realm of nonexistent theologies—that is, theologies of fallible gods.

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.

The designer had probably been going for Turkish Bath but had hit Czech Porn Shoot instead.

Operation Ajax set a pattern for U.S. miscalculation in dealing with developing countries that lasted throughout the Cold War: mistaking nationalist aspirations for Communist plots; equating commercial interests with national security; subverting democratically elected governments and aligning ourselves with autocrats when we determined it was to our benefit.

descuido de la probabilidad».

Now listen, Lam," he said, "you're a nice egg but you've got yourself poured into the wrong pan.

La gente che soffre mi annoia, la sfortuna generalmente è dovuta a un errore di calcolo » e « quando ci si trova davanti un ostacolo, la linea più breve tra due punti può essere una linea curva ».

The ones doing that, counting me out, are going to look silly.

The massive breakdown of disaster relief with Hurricane Katrina was rooted in state and local governmental agencies' and elected officials' lying to the public for decades. Read the Brookings Institution's list "Government's Most Visible Failures, 2001–2014"; it is a heartbreaking accumulation of avoidable tragedies and misery in just that short period, almost all rooted in some large, fundamental miscalculation.

The War of Independence was not a heroic enterprise but the result of a political miscalculation.

As far as bad ideas went, this stole the prize.

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