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Quotes About Blunder

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.
~ Anne Fadiman
They who cannot face the world have not the strength to face the difficulties of Yoga practice. If the outer world out-wearies your powers, how do you expect to conquer the difficulties of the inner life? If you cannot climb over the little troubles of the world, how can you hope to climb over the difficulties that a yogi has to scale? Those men blunder, who think that running away from the world is the road to victory, and that peace can be found only in certain localities.
~ Annie Besant
I'm a basket case. Yeah, you know, I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.
~ Scott Adsit
She was too stupid to pull off something like that. "You're
~ Fern Michaels
To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible.
~ Kurt Eichenwald
A fool will always find banana skins
~ Robert Priest
Mistakes, on the other hand, result from incorrect choices. Rather than blundering into them while we are distracted, we usually make mistakes because of insufficient knowledge, lack of experience or training, inadequate information (or inability to interpret available information properly), or applying the wrong set of rules or algorithms to a decision
~ Robert Wachter
he guessed, totally incorrectly.
~ Robin Hobb
Sorry things got so messy," Miles apologized. "I realize how it must burn you to have your opponent blunder to victory. I'd have preferred something neater and more tactical myself, like Komarr, but I had to take the situation as I found it." Tung snorted. "Who wouldn't? Who do you think you are? Lord Vorkosigan?" Miles
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Having fucked the groom is really no excuse for missing a wedding, you know.
~ Joe Abercrombie
George the ThirdOught never to have occurred.One can only wonderAt so grotesque a blunder.
~ E. C. Bentley
'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.
~ John Major
The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China.
~ Tiny Tim
A mistake of one man is not the mistake of mankind.
~ Kim Panti
Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
~ Elbert Hubbard
It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.
~ Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe
The first marriage for a man is a big lesson, the second a grave blunder, the third a fatal accident, the fourth an apocalypse.
~ Anuj Somany
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.
~ Aristophanes
Dante, I think, committed a crude blunder when, with a terror-inspiring ingenuity, he placed above the gateway of his hell the inscription, 'I too was created by eternal love'--at any rate, there would be more justification for placing above the gateway to the Christian Paradise...the inscription 'I too was created by eternal hate'...
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.
~ Fritz Zwicky
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don't know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.
~ Margaret Atwood
Not that it isn't great to see you. But it's not so great for you. What'd you do wrong? Laugh at his dick?
~ Margaret Atwood
If only he hadn't gone out with the Klan!
~ Margaret Mitchell