Mistake Quotes

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.