Quotes About Blunder

Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life.

You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.

Lenz snorts. "My mistake.

Considering Taiwan would only use these planes for defensive purposes, it was a short-sighted blunder on the administration's part not to sell Taiwan the new planes," Sean King, vice president of Park Strategies, told The Hill. "We can't let ourselves be bullied by Beijing. After all, the United States is mainland China's No. 1 nation-state export market. Beijing needs us more than we sometimes realize."

It took real talent to be that inept.

foot-in-mouth disease

In the first place, Hildegard calls for a marriage of science and spirituality. For religion and the secular sciences to be sundered as they currently are is a blunder of immense proportions on the part of our species—and with potentially dire consequences.

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

There's only one thing you can count on, Mr. President," he said. "On any given moment in any given day, somebody somewhere is screwing up.

Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity

She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.

That was a giant ball of fail. What now?

And I apparently take this as my cue to shove my foot even further into my mouth.

I'm an idiot.

Bosheit ist bloß eine Art Ungeschicklichkeit.

In short, man was often just plain stupid.

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

A child as awkward as I required an explanation. My father suggested that while God was busy knitting me together in my mother's womb, he'd become distracted and mistakenly endowed me with gifts destined for some poor baby boy. I don't know if he realized how affronting this must have been to God, at whose feet he laid the blunder.

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

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

blunderbuss

comes a cropper

come a cropper

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.