mistake quotes

If I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

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

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.