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Quotes About Mistaken

This prophecy has turned out entirely and miserably wrong.
~ Charles Darwin
The familiar rage was back, warming her from the inside out. It was the rage of a woman repeatedly ignored and overlooked, denied her due, mistaken for just another enjoyable mistake the morning after
~ Charles Stross
Kobe beef is not named after Kobe Bryant. Do not make this mistake.
~ Chelsea Handler
Those who think in Britain they can push the Brexit button and not have a bill to pay are seriously mistaken.
~ Charles Michel
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
~ Barbara Stanwyck
I'm often mistaken for a man.
~ Erin O'Connor
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
~ Ambrose Bierce
When I was a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl.
~ Bradley Cooper
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
~ Bill Nighy
I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.
~ Lawrence Block
When I lived in New York, never in my life had I been more mistaken for another than David Chang.
~ David Choe
I don't think I've ever been mistaken for anyone.
~ Gillian Jacobs
Incredibly, I've been mistaken for Kylie Minogue many times. People look at me, and you can see them thinking, 'She's somebody - but I don't know who.'
~ Jane March
My detractors would be mistaken to believe that the allegations against me that had no basis and were all lies would distract me. I continue to do my job.
~ Jejomar Binay
Clearly, a dog is not a child and can never be mistaken as one.
~ Kenya Moore
I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.
~ Pearl Cleage
It's funny, but people still get us mixed up. They come up to me and say, 'Gee, we still remember how great you were with Wally Berry in 'The Champ' and I have to tell them that was Jackie Cooper.'
~ Jackie Coogan
He wanted to say to her that we are all savage, foolish, violent, and mistaken; that, full of our fear and confusion, we walk in ignorance upon the living and beautiful earth, breathing young, vital air and bathing in the light of morning, seeing
~ Thomas Wolfe
And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.
~ Tom Clancy
IT WASN'T THAT Moore
~ Tom Clancy
I've come across otherwise smart people who are of the mistaken belief that if they hold on to a task, something only they know how to do, it'll ensure job security. These people are knowledge hoarders. This doesn't work. Everyone is replaceable. No matter how talented they are. Sure it may take longer at first to find out how to do that special task, but it will happen without them.
~ Kevin Behr
She had been mistaken - she was only the center to herself, as always, and a small player playing her part in someone else's story.
~ Kiran Desai
Another learning which cost me much to recognize, can be stated in four words. The facts are friendly. (...) Especially in our early investigations I can well remember the anxiety of waiting to see how the findings came out. Suppose our hypotheses were disproved! Suppose we were mistaken in our views! (...) I have perhaps been slow in coming to realize that the facts are always friendly. Every bit of evidence that one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
~ Carl R. Rogers
A little girl robbed you?" Tessa said. "Actually, she wasn't a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel." "Easy mistake to make," Jem said.
~ Cassandra Clare