Mistakes Quotes (page 32)

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• mistake
• little
• lively

They never let you live it down. One little mistake!"- Nero Robert Asprin

• mistake
• brain
• brainly

You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin. David Eddings

• mistake
• before
• capitalism

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Arthur Conan Doyle

• mistake
• science
• truthfulness

In science, mistakes always precede the truth. Horace Walpole

• mistake
• humanity
• persistence

errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• mistake
• positive
• past

A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened. George Orwell

• dream
• fall
• mistake

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• great
• life
• greatness

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table. Patricia Highsmith

• divorce
• wellness
• life

I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me. Agatha Christie

• end
• true
• may

If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die. True, you may say that, by exceeding caution, you may possibly escape these and the multitudinous other evil chances of life. But handle Queequeg's monkey-rope heedfully as I would, sometimes he jerked it so, that I came very near sliding overboard. Nor could I possibly forget that, do what I would, I only had the management of one end of it. Herman Melville

• mistake
• whatever
• only

Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness. William James

• you me
• old
• past

Live all you can. It's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do -- but live. This place makes it all come over me. I see it now. I haven't done so -- and now I'm old. It's too late. It has gone past me -- I've lost it. You have time. You are young. Live! William Dean Howells

• mistake
• smart
• personal

A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless. Steven Brust

• mistake
• thinking
• could

It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make Chuck Palahniuk

• mistake
• achievement
• evening

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement". Henry Ford