Mistake Quotes

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.

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

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 have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.

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.

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

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

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.

If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.