Mistake Quotes

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear.