Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Smith

When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

Ada Lovelace

Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I am a frail vessel full of errors.

Rove McManus

There is marginal room for error and you are working in front of a large crowd. Getting back on stage is something that I have really enjoyed.

John Gay

Tis a gross error held in schools, That Fortune always favors fools

Norman Geisler

Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the errors of a great mind than you can learn from the truths of a small mind. You can see a whole lot farther standing on the shoulders of giants.

We played well at times, but our margin for error is so small.

We shot poorly because we executed poorly. At times we picked up our play, but our margin of error is too thin to play like that.

When you give up 13 walks, six hits and four errors in three innings, that's enough.

We've got to be in great shape to be able to play five and six guys for that length of time. Our kids are in great shape. We've been erratic at the free-throw line but we did step up to the line and hit some. The first thing to go if you're tired is going to be your legs. If those goes then those free throws are going to be pretty hard to make.

We had some very costly errors tonight that led to several unearned errors by Iola.

The president should be worried. With 55 percent, if there's is a margin of error of 4 percent, he could actually have only 51 percent.

We're trying to reduce human error as much as possible.

We're not putting anything together right now. We're not hitting or pitching real well, and we made some big errors that hurt us.

We're not playing with intensity all the time. We can't just have two innings and then lie down; our little mental errors make the games look bad.

Too many errors and walks, the later it got the more errors and the more we threw it around. It was a win, but it wasn't a pretty win.

Orson Scott Card

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

Nick Hornby

That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short.

We compounded too many errors together. On the flip side, R.A. Long fought pitches off, found the holes and banged some big hits.

We really do not have much margin for error anymore. We have to win the rest of our games. We need to get another win. We need to get ready for Silverton and prepare for that game and go from there.

We did not order this book. It was shipped to us in error by one of our distributors,

Christine Teigen

I tweet from bed. I love it because it's so quick. And it's funny. But it also leaves a lot of room for error because new people don't sense the sarcasm - there's no sarcasm font.

We only have a handful of errors and they've been made with nothing on the line.

When resumes come in, especially in this market, hiring managers aren't looking to find someone ... they are looking to disqualify someone. Errors and hype do that.

We had only two hitting errors in one game, then 15 in another. We're getting better at some things, but then we get lax at the other things.

We had one out and we ran ourselves out of the inning, and then we could have held them without a run in the fourth inning, but instead we make an error and it turns into a three-run inning.

We were hitting well. We were just trying to minimize errors. ... At the end of a rally-scoring match, whatever team makes less errors is going to win the game, and we made less than them.

We need to work on getting some good wins. The league is loaded with good teams. We want to make the playoffs. Is it likely? It's possible ? we're just going to have to step it up come game day. Because we have a lot of speed we're going to play small ball. Defensively, we have to stop making errors ? not physical errors but mental mistakes.

I worry about the kids getting down. We need to stop making errors and get off of our heels.

Rene Preval

We have observed there have been gross errors and probably gigantic fraud.

We had a lot of penalties and mental errors and we had to fight through that and the field conditions.

We had a lot of mental errors today, and sometimes that happens when you are playing from behind. We're a young team, but that's not an excuse.

Virtually everything in that story was misleading and wrong. It was so full of errors that it's completely without merit.