Top 100 Mistake Quotes
#1. I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.
Gary Cherone
#2. Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.
Kurt Vonnegut
#3. Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.
Margaret Weis
#4. The fuel light's on, Frank! We're all going to die! Wait, wait ... Oh, my mistake - that's the intercom light.
Gary Larson
#5. I made the enthusiast's mistake of assuming that everyone shared my previous ignorance.
Ian McEwan
#6. They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.
Robert McNamara
#7. I've got daughters. Nine years old and six years old. First of all, I'm gonna teach them about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them PUNISHED with a baby.
Barack Obama
#8. If you make a hiring mistake, make the change quickly. Don't ignore problems. Don't assume it will get better.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#9. You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.
Lionel Shriver
#10. I got ready for bed and crawled in. The covers were comfortable and warm, but the pillow was just too weird. It gave me neck cramps, so I put it on the floor and went to sleep without it.
My first big mistake.
Rick Riordan
#11. He's made a mistake in coming here tonight. He'd wanted to see a room filled with ruffly knickknacks and lacy gewgaws. A room like any other, to indicate that she was a woman like any other.
Kristin Hannah
#12. I am what I want to be," he said. "You forgot that - and that was your mistake.
L.J.Smith
#13. I told him point-blank so there would be no mistake: This person he wanted to know better did not exist; I was who I seemed to be from the outside. That would never change.
Jeff VanderMeer
#14. Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.
Nicole Kidman
#15. He made a mistake, and you beat him. You start to believe there's a chance, the slimmest chance, you might be able to do it again.
Nicole Singer
#16. So fashion was, in a way, an accident. But this world opens you up to a lot of different avenues that interested me. I loved the idea of working in different countries. And I loved the idea of construction and working with imagery. But, yes, I fell into fashion a bit by mistake.
Christopher Bailey
#17. I think one thing that women can do is to just be more honest, with themselves and with their friends, and be more willing to say I'm really excited about this part of my life, but I'm screwing up over here, or this is a mistake I've made, or this is something I've given up on.
Debora Spar
#18. You have learned from your mistake, and you shall not make it again. Why, then, should you withhold your blessing from those who may benefit from it?
Christopher Paolini
#19. One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.
Jeev Milkha Singh
#20. The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.
Robert E.Lee
#21. Danny Tiatto is not going to make a mistake on purpose.
Kevin Keegan
#22. A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.
Garth Brooks
#23. Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.
Patrick Rothfuss
#24. Here, boy, is the lesson learned: showing mercy is a mistake. It affected the rest of my life.
Uvi Poznansky
#25. One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism ... The second possible mistake would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country. And the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.
Vladimir Putin
#26. Make no mistake, Lucas. You chose Pedro over your fellow Hunters. I'm coming for you and you will pay for your betrayal. I'm coming for everyone in that house and no one will survive.
Amber Belldene
#27. We often mistake letting go for giving up. Knowing the difference between
the two can make all the difference in the end.
Gina Greenlee
#28. Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.
Elizabeth Goudge
#29. - What is it called when one person make a huge mistake? - he called out, opening the driver's door to the Taurus.
- Easy - she said, pushing off the post and stepping to the front door. - That's called life.
Alessandra Torre
#30. I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking it was an exhibition on the changing roles of women in society, and actually ended up standing in the ladies' toilets.
David Nicholls
#31. Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.
Alex Steffen
#33. At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#34. Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
Steve Forbes
#35. If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#36. To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood
the lesson.
Deyth Banger
#37. I didn't want to hurt for him anymore, to wonder whether in leaving him I'd made a mistake, to torment myself with all the ways I'd wronged him.
Cheryl Strayed
#38. If a forward makes a mistake, he can try again. If he scores, he's in with a shout of the Ballon d'Or. But when it's a defender who slips up, it's a far more delicate situation. In percentage terms, the people who play at the back make fewer mistakes than those further forward.
Andrea Pirlo
#39. Make no mistake, my darling. I am coming for you. I will take you back.
Sanjida Kay
#40. Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.
Mae West
#41. My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.
Mika Brzezinski
#42. We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.
Anthony Weiner
#43. It was a different life out here, but make no mistake: Lazlo was every bit the dreamer he had always been, if not more. He might have left his books, but he carried all his stories with him.
Laini Taylor
#44. 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
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#45. Try. Make mistake. Fail. Learn. Try better. Make mistake. Fail. Learn. Try better still. Make mistake. Fail. Learn. Repeat until ... Try. Succeed.
Ken Evoy
#46. But I hope you will
use your brains. Use your brains. Don't be distracted. Once you make that mistake, of being
distracted, over a man, your life will never be your own. You will get the burden, a woman always does.
Alice Munro
#47. His eyes held a subtle light that she could not mistake for anything other than true attraction. The kind that mere friends did not share. She hated it. She loved it. She hated that she loved it.
Ted Dekker
#48. Tarly, when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.
George R R Martin
#49. Apologize on you mistake in time-may you never get time again ...
Debolina Bhawal
#50. This is one of the innovator's dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.
Clayton Christensen
#51. Every life is a story. Every story has mistakes. If you focus too much on the mistakes, you will miss the story. In doing that, you are making a dreadful mistake yourself. Sometimes, it is the mistakes that enrich and give the story so much more meaning than it would have had otherwise.
Beverly S. Harless
#52. If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.
Albert Camus
#53. Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
A. J. Jacobs
#54. You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself.
Lacey Sturm
#55. I write, "Give me reason but don't give me choice, because I'll make the same mistake again." I think that's what most men want to be told.
James Blunt
#56. There can be no question of mistake or error raised before men who consider whatever they choose to do to be in itself the greatest of virtues.
Ammianus Marcellinus
#57. Whatever the majority of people is doing, under any given circumstances, if you do the exact opposite, you will probably never make another mistake as long as you live.
Earl Nightingale
#58. Because the biggest mistake of his life - his infidelity - had given me the best part of mine.
Christina Lauren
#59. Jess." He whispers. "That was far from manhandling you sweetheart. I'm just claiming what I want, and make no mistake," He places tender kisses along my jaw leading down to my neck. "I. Always. Get. What. I. Want." He breathes in between kisses. "You would do pretty well to remember that." -Max Wild
S.M. Phillips
#60. Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope.
Bryant McGill
#61. The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
Salma Hayek
#62. If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything is lost. You have to reorientate yourself quickly and find a new plan in the new situation.
David Bronstein
#63. In this world, the mistake is in where one says he has objections. There should be no objection to anything.
Dada Bhagwan
#65. I made a big mistake. There's no doubt about it. But there have been positive testing cases in the past where the offender wasn't attacked to quite the same extent, especially not by other riders.
Patrik Sinkewitz
#66. A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.
Ed Wynn
#67. Never mistake movement for action ... a rocking horse moves; a race horse charges towards a goal.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#68. Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
Ralph Peters
#70. Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.
Pat Summitt
#71. Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.
Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
#72. To put everyone in government housing and food stamps and bring them in from around the world I think is a mistake. To give of your own money, I've given to my church. My church has helped people that came from Bosnia. That's a good thing.
Rand Paul
#73. Love is a mistake when we're all going to die any day now.
Melissa Marr
#74. It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.
Richard Paul Evans
#75. The real Ivan was rather more elusive, Mark gauged; it would not do to underestimate his subtlety, or mistake him for a simpleton.
Anonymous
#76. You are more than the pill.
You are more than the blade.
You are more than the mistake.
You are more than the diagnosis.
You are more than the suicide attempt.
Christopher Lilley
#77. Death is the One Big Mistake that none of us EVER plans to make.
Chuck Palahniuk
#78. It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.
Oscar Wilde
#79. But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her.
Shelly Crane
#81. Generally speaking, companies get into bankruptcy as a kind of meritocracy. Somebody made some sort of big mistake, to get into bankruptcy, and very often, a part of the mistake is too much leverage.
Wilbur Ross
#82. The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#84. Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.
Tris Speaker
#85. A guy has to have the want-to. You don't just make plays by a mistake, by accident.
Anquan Boldin
#86. It takes courage to own up your actions that hurt others, to look Into the eye and to mean the sorry, To accept the mistake and not deny, all of this needs courage.
Mansi Soni
#87. Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.
Kate Atkinson
#88. I've learned that, I wouldn't say I've made that mistake, but I've learned on some of my other movies, like, you always want to show everything that you feel works
Shawn Anthony Levy
#89. When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
Mahesh Babu
#90. Follow your gut, make a choice, and throw yourself into it. If you make a mistake, then you have merely afforded yourself a valuable lesson.
Nick Offerman
#91. The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
Herbert V. Prochnow
#92. When a person can take pleasure in marching in step to a piece of music it is enough to make me despise him. He has been given his big brain only by mistake.
Walter Isaacson
#93. Most vices ... demand considerable self-sacrifice. There is no greater mistake than to suppose the vicious life is the life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful - if strenuously led - as Christian's in Pilgrims Progress.
Aldous Huxley
#94. Know the mistake of your dcision before your first step.
Amanda Boyden
#95. Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out.
I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq.
We've been following time as it goes forward.
What a classic mistake. Linear time is so pre-9-11.
Jon Stewart
#96. A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, We live here. We live here.
Christopher Buehlman
#97. 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.
Walter Lang
#98. The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
Adam Osborne
#99. I'm not going to spend any time looking into myself the way one who prays does. Maybe that's an even worse mistake than praying might be.
Frederick Buechner
