Top 26 Miscalculation Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Miscalculation

#1. He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers. This gave us confidence even when our best efforts came to nothing.

Yoko Ogawa

#2. Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.

Louis Kronenberger

#3. Oh God, she could see it now - the police constable filling out a report: Mathematician drowned due to miscalculation.

Nina Rowan

#4. Time often sheds light on curious circumstances.
Something we thought was a crazy miscalculation may, in fact, turn out to be the key component to the winning play.

Jaime Buckley

#5. Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#6. To me, you are one miscalculation... The only one.

Sakufu Ajimine

#7. For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

Yasmina Khadra

#8. It had been a dreadful miscalculation, she saw that now: that all of them should be unhappy, so that he should not be disgraced.

Jo Baker

#9. A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is a reason we call science a discipline! Inferior minds bolt or build pyres to roast the witches in their midst!

Rick Yancey

#10. Within two months we will have pushed Hitler so far into a corner that he'll squeak. It was possibly the greatest miscalculation of the twentieth century.

Erik Larson

#11. Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Rene Daumal

#12. The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached ... An apology for America's values is never the right course ... The statement that came from the administration was - was a statement which is akin to apology and I think was a - a severe miscalculation.

Mitt Romney

#13. As Bush said, after detailing some of Saddam Hussein's charming practices: "If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning." It's not as if anyone is worried that we're making a horrible miscalculation and could be removing the Iraqi Abraham Lincoln by mistake.

Ann Coulter

#14. American strategic doctrine suggests that Mexico is of second-level importance to the United States. It ranks below Japan and Indonesia, Brazil and India, Egypt and Israel, and European powers including Britain, France, and Germany. This is a grave geopolitical miscalculation.

Stephen Kinzer

#15. But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

Jeannette Walls

#16. I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.

John Green

#17. The mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across - which happened to be the Earth - where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.

Douglas Adams

#18. Evans made himself their spokesman. "Charlie and Joe," he offered. "Remember us? We brought a friend back with us this time." Girls evidently didn't count in this little subdivision of the underworld; a miscalculation many a shady character has made.

Cornell Woolrich

#19. Women had always existed: they had lived, a species to themselves, with the demons. But they had wanted playmates: and together they had made men. What an error, what a cataclysmic miscalculation.

Clive Barker

#20. I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.

Erykah Badu

#21. My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something I find really, really scary.

Marie Rutkoski