Mistake Quotes

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.

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

The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it.... There's gonna be haters.