Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

Sydney Smith

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

Sydney Smith

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.

Antonio Tarver

He was bested by a better fighter, ... I didn't feel like he was intimidated. If I made a mistake he would have punished me.

Aaron Boone

He didn't make many mistakes on the big part of the plate.

Bruce Bochy

If we retro this, we could get him back sooner, rather than make a mistake and put him out there now and have him aggravate it.

Carson McCullers

Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose when she was in her coffin, to make certain there was no mistake; for if a breath of life was left in her, she would sit up and eat, but if she smelled the hopping-john, and did not stir, then they could just nail down the coffin and be certain she was truly dead.

Carl Van Vechten

Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.

Alan Dershowitz

The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

Alan Dershowitz

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

Alain Ducasse

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes-it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

Alain de Botton

The degree of sympathy we feel regarding another's fiasco is directly proportional to how easy or difficult it is for us to imagine ourselves, under like circumstances, making a similar mistake.

Al Davis

I have never forgiven myself…that I might have made a mistake.

Al Franken

Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written "Today I will masterbate--if I want to!

Al Gore

The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?

Al Gore

[T]he scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged.

Charles Kimball

Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose.

Charles Churchill

All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.

Larry Robinson

Over the past week-and-a-half, we haven't been successful and I started to make mistakes on the bench.

Jamie Langenbrunner

Other than the first period, I thought we played a solid game. We snapped out of making those mistakes we made in the first period and played better during the second and third.

Bill Evans

Some people can make a lot of mistakes and still get a way with it because athleticism can make up for it. We're not that kind of team. We need to play within ourselves.

Bobby Knight

My mistake was I stayed there too long,

Bruce Miller

I think they made a mistake by having the rally on a work day. It would have been better to have it on a Saturday or Sunday.

It is a mistake to treat the dropout problem as a fundamentally different kind of problem than other problems in our schools - it's a different symptom of the same disease.

I think through the mistakes they've made, they understand the process a little better.

I thought we were going to win. ... We made some mistakes but we played awfully hard.

People make mistakes. Nobody's perfect. They were trying to work things out.

I thought that was a big mistake on their part.

Brian Roberts

I screwed up, ... I was just trying to make something happen, and I made a mistake I shouldn't have.

Dave Pelzer

I believe that no matter how many mistakes we’ve made; how badly we’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected we’ve become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.

Dave Ramsey

Making mistakes and learning from them is crucial to winning.

David Niven

Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.

David Nicholls

I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking it was an exhibition on the changing roles of women in society, and actually ended up standing in the ladies' toilets.