Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Hemingway

Never mistake movement for action

Ernest Hemingway

Never mistake motive for action.

Ezekiel Emanuel

We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them.

Ethel Merman

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

Erykah Badu

I was born to make mistakes, I ain't scared to take the weight.

Ernest Mandel

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

Ernest Holmes

The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.

Florynce Kennedy

I think unity is a mistake.... If I were the Establishment and had the big loaded guns of the various oppressive institutions....I would much prefer to see one lion come through the door than 500 mice.

Florence Welch

If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that.

Fletcher Knebel

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Fiona Apple

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

Herbert Hoover

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned...

Henry Miller

Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.

Henry Miller

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.

Henning Mankell

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Helen Keller

Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.

Cat Power

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

Cat Power

I am human and I make mistakes.

Cat Stevens

In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It's got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again.

Cassandra Clare

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes.

Cassandra Clare

Do not make the mistake of believing that he does not love you because he plays at not caring.

George Eliot

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

George Eliot

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

Gore Vidal

Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.

Gina Lollobrigida

I studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake .... I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.

Harvey Penick

If you play poorly one day, forget it. If you play poorly the next time out, review your fundamentals of grip, stance, aim and ball position. Most mistakes are made before the club is swung. If you play poorly for a third time in a row, go see your professional.

Harvey Penick

Looking up is the biggest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you've already made the mistake.

Harvey Pekar

I don't think I made any really big mistakes; it's just that I chose something difficult to do. Looking back, I suppose I should be grateful that I got as far as I got.

Harold Ross

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

Harold Pinter

Watching first nights, though I've seen quite a few by now, is never any better. It's a nerve-racking experience. It's not a question of whether the play goes well or badly. It's not the audience reaction, it's my reaction. I'm rather hostile toward audiences—I don't much care for large bodies of people collected together. Everyone knows that audiences vary enormously; it's a mistake to care too much about them. The thing one should be concerned with is whether the performance has expressed what one set out to express in writing the play. It sometimes does.

Harold Ramis

I'm sure that the liability for doing a tracheotomy would be tremendous. You make one mistake, and it's over. Most doctors won't even do it.

Griffin Dunne

It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

James Bryce

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.