Mistake Quotes

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.

There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having.

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.