Mistake Quotes - page 14

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake. (Stephen Ambrose)
A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man. View quote
Philip K. Dick
The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal! View quote
François Lelord
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned. View quote
Jose Bergamin
Don't you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you've made, every hurt you've received, every bit of meanness you've dealt out? There's no profit in it, no point to it, and you need sleep. View quote
Charlaine Harris
I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
What are you? (Danger) Well, had you listened before you stabbed me, you would have heard the ‘I'm Acheron's Squire' part. Apparently that somehow escaped your hearing and you mistook me for a pin cushion. (Alexion) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
We all make mistakes, Steele. It's what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do. View quote
Sean Covey
I like the idea of contained emotion because I grew up most of my life feeling that way. As an adolescent, people would always say I was not expressive, and they always made the mistake of thinking that I didn't feel anything because I didn't react to things. (Shaun Tan)
If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it. View quote
Adam Ant
Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utterly mistaken about their fellow and, failing to realize this sad truth throughout a lifetime, weep when they read in the newspapers about his death? View quote
Osamu Dazai
The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty. View quote
David Levithan
It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. View quote
David Levithan
I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there. View quote
David Levithan
arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. View quote
David Levithan
The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life. View quote
David Trimble
We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway. View quote
J. Courtney Sullivan
The invasion of Iraq was, in ways that have since become hard to dispute, a terrible mistake. View quote
Jacob Weisberg
Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake. (James Surowiecki)
Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and over again. It's really uncanny how we build these beautiful multicultural edifices and then allow this switch to be flipped and everybody goes, 'Oh, the other, get them out of here. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
Nobody's perfect. And if you think they are, you're sadly mistaken. View quote
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
He who never makes a mistake, never makes anything. View quote
Joseph Delaney
You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake? View quote
Amy Chua