Mistake Quotes

As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.

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.

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake.

I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had.

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.

Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.