Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Chesterfield

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.

This whole team is stepping it up this year. We still make mistakes that we shouldn't, but we're getting better.

We're not ready to win a State championship with them, but I thought they passed their first test. What I really like about them is every scrimmage they got better. We have pointed out mistakes and every scrimmage they got better.

To me, the mistakes we make on replay all come when we overturn when we shouldn't overturn,

Billy Graham

Don't let past mistakes keep you from seeking God

Billy Graham

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is an unfortunate mistake of the devil. But if it repents, it will be saved!

Billy Graham

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Billy Graham

God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.

Paul Hewitt

We obviously played pretty well for the first 35 minutes. But we made some mistakes and some breakdowns we just couldn't overcome.

Matt Bowen

We passed well and served well. In practice we serve 50 times and if you make two mistakes in a row you have to run. Pretty much everything went well.

Richard Parsons

While no one can stand here and say we're never going to make a mistake, we're not going to make a mistake out of aggressiveness,

We like to be aggressive, but you have to pick your spots. We're just making mistakes that we can't overcome at this point.

Orson Scott Card

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

Ben Roethlisberger

We will come out and not make the same mistakes that we did (against New England).

Dick Cheney

You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.

Dick Cheney

If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.

We didn't play very consistently; we were making very uncharacteristic mistakes. We played a lot better on Sunday, but if we play like that anymore, we will have a rough time with the rest of our schedule.

Walter Benjamin

That was one of the big problems in the [Black Panther] Party. Criticism and self-criticism were not encouraged, and the little that was given often wasn’t taken seriously. Constructive criticism and self-criticism are extremely important for any revolutionary organization. Without them, people tend to drown in their mistakes, not learn from them.

Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.

Chuck Palahniuk

We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.

Mark Cuban

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don't step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would.

We had some mistakes when we had the momentum.

Peter McWilliams

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

We play everyone, and sometimes that throws the team's rhythm off. A lot of the time, it's the same mistake being made by different people.

Alan Cohen

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

When you're releasing that many people, unfortunately mistakes can happen.

Mike Reese

When you're playing someone that's not quite as skilled and well-coached as New Albany, you can make mistakes. When you play a team this good, you can't.

Roy Williams

When you're playing a team of that caliber, you can't make the mistakes we made.

Kevin Keegan

was not strong enough and made too many mistakes.

David Jones

Today, VoIP is where wireless was 10 years ago. We can't repeat the mistakes made with 9-1-1 and wireless phones again.

To Lansing's credit, when you have all seniors, those mistakes don't always take place.

Leon Washington

We know they are going to make mistakes. We have two more weeks to get it right.