Quotes About Blunder

The worst political blunder in the history of civilization was probably the decision of the emperor of China in the year 1433 to stop exploring the oceans and to destroy the ships capable of exploration and the written records of their voyages. . . The decision was the result of powerful people pursuing partisan squabbles and neglecting the long-range interests of the empire. This is a disease to which governments of all kinds, including democracies, are fatally susceptible. Freeman Dyson

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Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to see any blunder made by their commanders. —DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER

Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein , he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life. But this 'blunder,' rejected by Einstein , is still sometimes used by cosmologists even today, and the cosmological constant denoted by the Greek letter ? rears its ugly head again and again and again.

What part of 'drop it' don't you understand?" "The part where you keep interfering with my investigation and shooting people I need to interrogate." "Interrogate? I must not understand the meaning of that word, because from where I'm sitting, you blunder around asking people questions until they try to kill you.

George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S. and coalition partners stands as one of the greatest blunders in American history. The Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS, rose out of the the chaos, throwing the region into turmoil that hasn't been equaled since the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

My mouth is sore from continually extracting my foot from it.

Beauty is enhanced by unashamed irregularities; magnificence by a façade of blunder

I just peed and forgot to take off my underwear.

When a goalkeeper makes a mistake, there is no one to save the goal.

'Karzzz' was a mistake.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full explanation. Different segments of the organism called John Terrance Kelly knew different parts of the whole story, but somehow they'd never all come together, leaving the separate fragments of what had ...once been a tough, smart, decisive and to blunder about in confusion - and despair! There was a happy thought.

Now he had done it.

And then I did the stupidest thing I've ever done. "They're not here," I said. I knew, as the words left my mouth, that I had just made a deep mistake.

She had been given the opportunity to participate in civilization, and she muffed it.

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No, if it were, men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder, though, and is punished as such.

Another fine mess you've got us in, Stanley.

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

If there is any way for that man to do the job wrong, he'll do it that way.