Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bess Myerson

I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

Bertolt Brecht

Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

Bertrand Russell

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Bertrand Russell

In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.

Bertrand Russell

The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions to which a desire would otherwise lead, and by often causing the inhibited impulses themselves to be unnoticed or quickly forgotten.

Bernard Baruch

If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible.

Cat Cora

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

Carolyn Wells

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

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.

Casey Stengel

I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

Carl Levin

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

Carl Levin

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

Carl Levin

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

Carl Jung

It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a cor­responding development of morality.

Carl Jung

The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods.

Carl Jung

We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live.

Anthony Principi

would be a tragic mistake for the nation.

George H. W. Bush

would be a mistake for the security of this country.

We're still making the mistakes we don't need to.

Billy Ray Cyrus

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

We seemed to rush shots. There was no real reason to be in a rush. As a result, our mistakes turned into positives for Daytona. We made mistakes, and they capitalized off all of them.

That's a lot of young-guy mistakes out there tonight. You don't want to use it as an excuse, but you want to use it as motivation to get better. Now they know the speed of the game.

Jane March

Incredibly, I've been mistaken for Kylie Minogue many times. People look at me, and you can see them thinking, 'She's somebody - but I don't know who.'

Jorge Rodriguez

I'm no angel. I make mistakes like every other human, but I try to do what's right.

Chad Williams

I'm proud of the win but I'm even more proud in the way that we won. We made some stupid mistakes tonight but we overcame them. We never quit, and we got the win because of that.

I made big mistakes today. I had opportunities but didn't do anything. It just wasn't my day.

Sebastien Bourdais

I made a small mistake so I think I can go faster.

Lance Armstrong

I made a mistake to go after him that day. I thought it was too important but I never said the things he said I did.