Famous Quotes & Sayings

Claude Pepper

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Claudia Black

Make mistakes; it's what you do about them that counts.

Colin Greenwood

A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

Claude Monet

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

Danny Wallace

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

Dan Savage

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

Dan Savage

Don't mistake being an asshole for being a man.

Dan Rather

I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.

Dan Quayle

I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, `You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.

Dan Quayle

It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.

Cynthia Weil

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

Cynthia Ozick

What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has become. Pick up any short story and listen to its voice, the tedious easy vernacular that mistakes transcription for realism. This would display an understandable pragmatism if it were a pandering to common-denominator readers; but it is, in fact, a kind of hifalultin literary ideology, the less-is-more Hemingway legacy put through an up-to-the-minute industrial blender.

Cynthia Ozick

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

Cyril Connolly

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

Cyril Connolly

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

Compay Segundo

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

Daphne Guinness

I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.

Daniela Bobadilla

Charming is the perfect word to describe Charlie [Sheen]. That's why people love him. He's so personable. They can relate to him. He made mistakes and he knows it. Everyone is like that. That is why he has so many fans.

Daniel Libeskind

I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make.

Dan Millman

There are no mistakes, only lessons. If you don't learn the lesson the first time, they get harder.

Dan Millman

It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.

Corrie Ten Boom

The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys.

Common

I put God first, and strive to do my best by being a loving human being, recognizing that sometimes I make mistakes and bad choices.

Colum McCann

Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.

David Wroblewski

I think it’s just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same time. And we still wouldn’t know what to do differently. Everyone just muddles through, trying not to make too many mistakes.

David Packard

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.

David Perlmutter

The origin of brain disease is in many cases predominantly dietary. Although several factors play into the genesis and progression of brain disorders, to a large extent numerous neurological afflictions often reflect the mistake of consuming too many carbs and too few healthy fats.

David Liss

Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.

David Lloyd George

Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and enjoyment, for the good player gets worried over the slightest mistake, whereas the poor player makes too many mistakes to worry about them.

David Lynch

I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don't care what else happens.

David Carson

Never mistake legibility for communication.

Curt Schilling

I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.