Mistake Quotes

So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.

I had acne late, in college. My skin used to be really flawless. Went to college, became a vegetarian, ate a lot of cheese - big mistake. Here I am trying to be healthy and I'm eating grilled cheese sandwiches and french fries every day, having mad eruptions all over my face.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Candidates and their consultants keep making the same mistake. They assume that all independents are bundled neatly together ideologically between Republicans and Democrats.

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

And some of those people that voted Republican are now going to say, what a mistake I made because I didn't know they were going to take my job away. I didn't know they were going to take collective bargaining away.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed look.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.