Mistake Quotes

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.