Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Kenyon

He [Erdogan] has crept up to the edge talking about mistakes by pilots. But he also knows that with leaders like himself and Vladimir Putin, apologies may not be the answer. Just look at Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu apologized years ago to Erdogan over this incident off the coast of Gaza in which Turkish people died onboard an aid ship. And only just now is that relationship at least in talks to be improved.

Peter L. Berger

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization

Peter Kropotkin

It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.

Peter Kreeft

The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.

Peter Frampton

The original concept of rock and roll... was supposed to be this young angst with mistakes and all. Four or five guys get together, get angry and that's really how it starts, and i'ts all this energy.

Pema Chodron

At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my entire life, I give full attention to the things I wish hadn’t occurred. Recognizing these mistakes honestly but without self-recrimination, I try to rejoice in the innate wisdom that allows me to see so bravely, and I feel compassion for how I so frequently messed up. Then I can go forward. The future is wide open, and what I do with it is up to me.

Pema Chodron

We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that’s who we are. We mistake the openness of our being—the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment—for a solid, irrefutable self. Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer.

Paulo Coelho

I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.

Phil Crosby

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

Peter Schiff

A federal bailout would spare California from having to make spending cuts needed to bring its budget into balance. The matter has become urgent since California voters rejected several tax-hiking ballot initiatives. Rather than taking the vote as a signal to dramatically curtail spending, the state turned to the feds. If they get a free pass, the politicians can avoid fixing any of their past mistakes or preparing California for the future.

Peter Senge

The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

Peter Senge

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

Peter Jackson

What is the truth is that every one of my films is a film that I'd love to go see, and I think that's very important because I always think it's a mistake to make movies for other people, or to make them for a demographic, or try to second guess an audience.

Peter Cook

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly

Simon Sinek

Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome.

Randy Couture

Learn from your mistakes, make adjustments, and go out and compete again. That's the mark of championship spirit.

Randy Alcorn

Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.

Thomas Jefferson

Delay is preferable to error.

Robert Holden

One of the big mistakes I think we make in relationships is that we don't give our best energy to the people that matter most.

Rick Santorum

I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and gets an issue wrong.

Rick Riordan

We'de have to get in and get out the hard way; and if we made a mistake, there was no telling what sort of curse we'de unleash: monster guardians, plagues, fires, exploding donkeys(don't laugh; they're bad news).

Taylor Caldwell

The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God’s,

Tamsin Egerton

I've always wanted to play Guinevere. I just asked Chris what he thought, and he steered me in the right directions. We just wanted to make her young and able to make mistakes, which I think is important.

Tammy Bruce

Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the principles that garnered her the unique support she enjoyed continue to inform and drive the base that lifted her.

Tammy Bruce

Moving people into reality TV is a mistake.

Tamara Mellon

Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

Tadashi Yanai

I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.

T. Berry Brazelton

you learn more from your mistakes than you do from your successes.

T. Berry Brazelton

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

Swami Vivekananda

Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.

Ron Fournier

Obama will learn from his mistakes.

Rumi

Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core.