It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.
~By Adelbert von Chamisso ~
We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn't been made.
~By David Gill ~
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
~By John C. Maxwell ~
Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?
~By Jacques Plante ~
Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.
~By Ava Gardner ~
We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.
~By Mickey Rivers ~
But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time.
~By John McEnroe ~
Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!
~By Diane Sawyer ~
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.
~By Alberto Gonzales ~
Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop.
~By Jurgen Klinsmann ~
Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
~By Len Wein ~
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.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
~By Hansie Cronje ~
Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.
~By Barbara Olson ~
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
~By George Berkeley ~
Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
~By Nafisa Joseph ~
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
~By Millard Fillmore ~
But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
~By Bill Joy ~
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
~By Jules Verne ~
I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.
~By Brian Boitano ~
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
~By William E. Gladstone ~
And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.
~By Sarah Jessica Parker ~
The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.
~By Robert Byrd ~
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
~By Conrad Hilton ~
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
~By Bob Dylan ~
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
~By Rick Pitino ~
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
~By Samuel Butler ~
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
~By W. H. Auden ~
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
~By Chief Joseph ~
All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.
~By Moss Hart ~
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
~By Sivananda ~
Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
~By Charles Schumer ~
I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot.
~By Alexis Arguello ~
I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
~By Frank Capra ~
I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion.
~By Tom Selleck ~
I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.
~By Jim Nussle ~
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
~By Earl Warren ~
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
~By Ignazio Silone ~
I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
~By Martin Lawrence ~
I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.
~By Larry King ~
To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.
~By Leo Burnett ~
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
~By Walter Gropius ~
It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.
~By Griffin Dunne ~
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.
~By Mark Udall ~
Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
~By Alain Prost ~
It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.
~By Richard Curtis ~
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
~By Jack Welch ~
Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.
~By Richard King ~
You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
~By Clive Bell ~
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
~By Thomas Szasz ~
But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
~By Pat Robertson ~
I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.
~By Ethel Merman ~
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
~By Ross Perot ~
I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.
~By Corey Haim ~
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.
~By James Hillman ~
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
~By Nick Clooney ~
As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.
~By James Payn ~
All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.
~By Tracey Emin ~
I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.
~By Pierre Laval ~
An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
~By Ring Lardner ~
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
~By Ted Williams ~
Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
~By Holly Near ~
I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.
~By Gregg Easterbrook ~
We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
~By Wietse Venema ~
The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
~By George McGovern ~
Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.
~By Desi Arnaz ~
I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
~By Patrick Marber ~
The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.
~By George W. Bush ~
Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
~By John Le Carre ~
If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.
~By John W. Holt, Jr. ~
Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.
~By Jack Abramoff ~
Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq.
~By Elizabeth Dole ~
Don't mistake niceness for weakness.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
~By Douglas Adams ~
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
~By Robert Fripp ~
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
~By Orlando A. Battista ~
You may make some mistakes-but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
~By Joel Osteen ~
I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!
~By Kim Kardashian ~
In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.
~By James Q. Wilson ~
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.
~By Josiah Warren ~
Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.
~By Jennifer Capriati ~
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