Quotes About Blunder

miscalculation of tragic proportions,

The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.

Anybody can miss a penalty.

How the right hand became disabled would be a long story for the left to tell," he wrote to William Stephens Smith. "It was by one of those follies from which good cannot come, but ill may.

Oop—I is tripped.

embarrassment as quickly

Like all big mistakes, mine started with a goat.

It just came out, a new number one on the list of the dumbest things he'd ever said.

The party blundered helplessly across the sky like a man leaning against an unexpectedly open door. It spun and wobbled on its hover jets. It tried to right itself and wronged itself instead.

Thirty seconds into the conversation, and already he'd blown it. Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

In the original Greek, one of the meanings of sin [hamartia] is simply "to miss the mark.

What do you call the unforgivable error?" "Overlooking the obvious.

You didn't weld it shut or anything like that?" "Yes, stupid me, I forgot.

The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.

Jabbar Khan blundered by persecuting Hindu Kashmiris. Many of them left the Valley

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

Leave it to a man to mess things up

Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.

My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.

No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.

Went to the paper shop - it had blown away.

George Hendrick simply lost that sun-blown pop-up.

Sometimes stupid is crime enough.