Quotes About Blunder

Without a doubt, Einstein's greatest blunder was having declared that lambda was his greatest blunder.

Right. Of course. Well, then that makes sense, I guess." Open mouth, insert sand-covered foot.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make

Whatever the blessing, the talent, or technology, we can still find some way to fuck it up.

To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.

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The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

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

I went to the bathroom in my pants. That's what you done, man.

No? Oh, wait, that's from a different movie

No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.

we really fucked up the engineering on this

Let me just say it: Bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.

There are many expressions to describe someone who is going about something in the wrong way. "Making a mistake" is one way to describe this situation. "Screwing up" is another, although it is a bit rude, and "Attempting to rescue Lemony Snicket by writing letters to a congressman, instead of digging an escape tunnel" is a third way, although it is a bit too specific.

Everybody does something wrong at one time or another.

You need not hurry when the object is only to prevent my saying a bon mot, for 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.

In order to enable change, companies have to learn that keeping managers busy is a blunder. If you have busy managers working under you, they are an indictment of your vision and your capacity to transform that vision into reality. Cut them some slack.

Operation Bluestar was a mischievous blunder, and it should not have been done.

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

Ow! My eye! I didn't know where my hand was going. I thought it wanted to rest behind my head but it wanted to poke me in the eye!

what is the opposite of a mistake? And I realised there wasn't a word, in fact, precisely because a mistake always arises from best intentions that go awry. You can't set out to make a mistake. Mistakes happen – there's nothing we can do about them.

Ay, sir," Alec said, who had long since found out that no man has courage but that any man may blunder blindly into valor as one stumbles into an open manhole in the street.