Mistake Quotes

You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.

I made a big mistake of my life.

I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.

At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.

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.

At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.

Don't mistake niceness for weakness.

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

I think I made a mistake once... yeah... it was only once.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.

Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.

It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks.