Fatal Error Quotes

#1. Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.

Paul Bowles

#2. Spirituality is not like a water faucet in that it can be turned off or turned on at will. Some make the fatal error of assuming that religion is for others now and perhaps someday for us. Such thinking is not based on fact or experience, for we are daily becoming what we shall be.

Thomas S. Monson

#3. I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.

Jenny Downham

#4. Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger
without even knowing it is happening to you
of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself.

Edward Albee

#5. Lajwanti made the cardinal mistake of trying to cross the dividing line that separates the existence of the rich from that of the poor. She made the fatal error of dreaming beyond her means. The bigger the dream, the bigger the disappointment.

Vikas Swarup

#6. Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.

Ludwig Von Mises

#7. If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

Bill Gosper

#8. Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head

Siegbert Tarrasch

#9. In spite of the fundamental importance of economic facts in determining politics and beliefs of an age or nation, I do not think that non-economic factors can be neglected without risks of error which may be fatal in practice.

Bertrand Russell

#10. Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the all, and prevent you from falling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited, and to do that would be fatal to your hopes.

Wallace D. Wattles

#11. The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.

Paul Tillich

#12. "a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" " ... this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"

Alec Douglas-Home

#13. Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

Keith Henson

#14. Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

#15. Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.

Charles Caleb Colton

#16. Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends.
If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.

Jimmy Buffett

#17. I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.

Teresa Of Avila

#18. It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

James G. Frazer

#19. The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.

John Ruskin

#20. Always winter but never Christmas.

C.S. Lewis

#21. Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

Oscar Hammerstein II

#22. What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. Looking the part helps get the chance to fill it. But if you fill the part, it matters not if you look it.

Malcolm Forbes