Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Mann

A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is not led by an acquired habit of mind to regard the infinite as something bounded.

C. S. Lewis

Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the précis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact.

C. S. Lewis

I was wondering — I mean — could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked to come here. You would not have called me unless I had been calling you.

C. S. Lewis

Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.

Agnes Martin

Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.

Charlotte Bronte

I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.

Charlotte Bronte

There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can never be rightly known, we take pleasure, I think, in being consummately ignored. What honest man on being casually taken for a housebreaker does not feel rather tickled than vexed at the mistake?

Charles de Gaulle

Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.

Barbara Sher

Whenever we dream out loud, were criticized for being foolish by people who really have no idea how special we are. As a result, we crush our dreams without giving them half a chance.

Eric Schlosser

I'd like to think that, in the United States, you can criticize a company that makes hamburgers without having to worry about what might happen to you.

Eric Schlosser

The thing that's been inhibiting long-form investigative reporting is fear - fear of being sued, of being unpopular, of being criticized by very powerful groups.

Dick Cheney

I've been criticized because I've had the temerity to speak out and done a couple of interviews since I left office. I don't find anything surprising about that.

Louis Garrel

My grandfather criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once.

Bob Bennett

We spent more than the president requested, and we were criticized for pork-barrel spending,

Ken Starr

We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach.

Diego Forlan

Menotti didn't make a mistake because he won the World Cup. You can't criticize that.

Dave Marsh

Last year, we were criticized for the simplicity of the maps. This is the sort of quality with maps that we demanded when I was with Rand McNally.

Alan Sugar

I like to be a very fair person.

Susan B. Anthony

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Cheri Huber

A person who is without fear cannot be controlled.

Eckhart Tolle

The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.

Basmah bint Saud

I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.

Ashley Olsen

I'm the most private person.

Brad Feld

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

Camille Paglia

I am a very reclusive, private person.