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mistake power order
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms. Charles Caleb Colton
mistake greatness ignorant
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
mistake flirting errors
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
mistake ignorance writing
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
mistake creativity science
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
mistake block sweat
Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing. Charles Stross
mistake ends chains
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest. Charles Spurgeon
mistake beginning-middle-and-end execution
A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.
rather sooner
We're insisting that it be sooner rather than later. Richard Berthelsen
rather
Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy. Jim Calhoun
rather rule
made it a rule ... rather than the exception.
rather record
I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler. Thomas Mars
rather work
I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself. Kate Bush
rather
I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down. Keeley Hawes
rather stated
Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.
rather strange
So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen. Suzanne Farrell
rather survive taken
She was rather abrasive and difficult, but it must've taken that kind of personality to survive and to do what she did in the 1960s.
retrospect revolution
Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect. Alan Greenspan
retrospect complicated sometimes
The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which. Cheryl Strayed
retrospect ethics easy
Righteousness is easy in retrospect. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
retro somewhere
It's in the vein, somewhere in a cross between The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Stones, Badfinger, you know, but it's not retro at all. But it is very pop.
retrospect way kind
My ability to notice that kind of thing, the sanctity of the bubble that you create, has not been so good in a way, in that I notice it concurrently with actually doing the thing. I always notice it in retrospect. Andy Richter
retrospect turned
I actually think in retrospect our decision-making turned out very well,
retrospect lasts doing-you
You know, 'Peepshow,' in retrospect that seems like a good fit for me, but in the beginning, I'm sure you remember, nobody was sure if the show was going to last. Everybody was like, 'What are you doing? You can't sing, and you can't dance. What are you doing in this show? Holly Madison
retro sad scares
Ex-anything is very sad to me. I don't want to be a retro artist. That scares me. Kenny Rogers
retrospect void impossible
You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success. Guillermo del Toro