Mistake Quotes - page 19

I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society. (Rocco Buttiglione)
I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage, I'm that confident and that cocky because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh. View quote
Russell Peters
With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake. View quote
Red Adair
I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone. View quote
Sal Mineo
The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq. View quote
Sherrod Brown
I had one good racket, a Wilson Javelin. It was my favorite racket, and I made the mistake of putting it next to the heater. It just got so hot that it melted. View quote
Stefan Edberg
Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else? View quote
Tom Berenger
Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter. View quote
Tom Daschle
A lot of people perceive women as sexy based on their outer appeal. But there's no way to mistake if a woman is confident. View quote
Trey Songz
I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for. View quote
Theodore C. Sorensen
Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round. (Walter Annenberg)
When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played. View quote
Willie Stargell
No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake. View quote
Walter Lang
You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him? View quote
Walter Payton
Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation. View quote
Warren Beatty
But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control. View quote
Wesley Schultz
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause. View quote
Wietse Venema
Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake? View quote
Yeardley Smith
I draw no distinction between error and sin. If a man commits a bona fide mistake and confesses it with a contrite heart before his Maker, the merciful Maker sterilizes it of all harm. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Men have superior strength of body; but were it not for mistaken notions of beauty, women would acquire sufficient to enable them to earn their own subsistence, the true definitions of independence; and to bear those bodily inconveniences and exertions that are requisite to strengthen the mind. Let us then, by being allowed to take the same exercise as boys, not only during infancy, but youth, arrive at perfection of body, that we may know how far the nation superiority of man extends . For what reason or virtue can be expected from a creature when the seed-time of life is neglected? None; did not the winds of heaven casually scatter many useful seeds in fallow ground. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Realistic thinking accrues only after mistake making, which is the cosmic wisdom's most cogent way of teaching each of us how to carry on. (Buckminster Fuller)
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves. View quote
Germaine Greer
We can be slow as well to give greatness its due, a mistake I made myself long ago when I voted against a federal holiday in memory of Dr. King. I was wrong. I was wrong. And eventually realized that, in time to give full support for a state holiday in Arizona. I'd remind you we can all be a little late sometimes in doing the right thing, and Dr. King understood this about his fellow Americans. View quote
John McCain
Make no mistake: I do not valorize our military out of some unfamiliar instinct. I grew up in a military family, and have my own record of service, and have stayed closely engaged with our armed forces throughout my public career. In the American system, the military has value only inasmuch as it protects and defends the liberties of the people. View quote
John McCain