Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fran Lebowitz

One of the big mistakes they made in Europe is that the circumstances in which you most frequently read or hear the word "race" or "racism" in Europe applies to Muslims. Which is not a race. It is a religion. You can convert to this. You cannot convert your race. I could become a Muslim. I could not become a Chinese person or a black person. So they constantly use that in Europe.

George Wald

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

George Washington

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

George Washington

It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

George W. Bush

History will look back, and I'm fully prepared to accept any mistakes that history judges to my administration, because the president makes the decisions, the president has to take the responsibility.

George Santayana

The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

George Osborne

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

George Orwell

A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.

George Orwell

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.

George Orwell

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

Neale Donald Walsch

The biggest mistake we make in creating successful relationships is that we seek to experience who we are through others rather than allowing others to experience who they are through us.

Neale Donald Walsch

We have some role in almost everything that happens in our lives. When "bad" things happen, the mistake is not in the role, but in calling them bad. For in calling them bad, we call ourselves bad, since we had a role in their creation. We then have only two choices: blame ourselves, or disown our creative power, neither of which is congruent with our highest purpose.

Neale Donald Walsch

You cannot make a mistake, you can only make a decision that will be your next best step.

Nancy Werlin

Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

Nancy Werlin

But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

Mikhail Prokhorov

I think women make the same mistake with me all the time. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

Miles Davis

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

Miles Davis

Don't be afraid of mistakes - There are none.

Mila Kunis

I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.

Milan Kundera

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

Miguel Cabrera

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

Miguel Cabrera

I made a mistake and I'll work in the season to be better. It's part of life to be a man and don't try to hide something if it's broken.

Marcel Proust

Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time.

Marcel Proust

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

Marcel Proust

Let but a single flash of reality -- the glimpse of a woman from afar or from behind -- enable us to project the image of Beauty before our eyes, and we imagine that we have recognised it, our hearts beat, and we will always remain half-persuaded that it was She, provided that the woman has vanished: it is only if we manage to overtake her that we realise our mistake.

Jose Saramago

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

Jose Saramago

There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.