Quotes About Blunder

Oh, you stupid, if there's a right way and a wrong way, trust you to find the dumb way.

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Failure to prevent the Great Depression during the 1930s was the Fed's greatest blunder until the runaway inflation of the 1970s.

Did the priest you mentioned tell you about them? Or did he send you out to blunder along on your own?They're an odd lot. Half of them are soldiers, or priests in disgui- Ah.Is your priest with them?" "No!" He snapped. Ping. He jumped. He'd forgotten the bell. "I mean, I don't know". Ping. "There is no particular priest."Ping. He bit his lip and fell silent.

I think you impressed him with the sheer force of your stupidity.

Tragedy is based on this sense that there's been a terrible mistake,isn't it?

And to think that you got Interpol involved in this. How embarrassing!

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since.

Gie'd her a total riddy

Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn't save him, and it certainly wasn't a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam.

Sometimes stupid is crime enough.

Leave it to a man to mess things up

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

I am such a sillybilly that I embarrass myself all the time.

I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face.

I'm sorry!" I moaned. "Oh man, I messed up big time! How could I have been so stupid?

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

McGeorge Bundy wrote in Foreign Affairs, "In the real world of real political leaders—whether here or in the Soviet Union—a decision that would bring even one hydrogen bomb on one city of one's own country would be recognized as a catastrophic blunder; ten bombs on ten cities would be a disaster beyond human history;

slipped on a cognitive banana peel

You STUPID stupid girl. Honestly, you have done some stupid stupid things in your time, but this takes the biscuit of stupidity.

Such a person does not have his healthy guilt (moral shame) available to him. Healthy guilt would say, "I made a mistake or a blunder, and I can repair that blunder." When a person's guilt has become neurotic, it becomes an "immorality shame.

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.