I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.
~By Ally Sheedy ~
But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.
~By Geraldine Ferraro ~
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
~By Henry Moore ~
We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again.
~By Casper Van Dien ~
Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.
~By Edward Kennedy ~
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 ~
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
~By Ted W. Engstrom ~
There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.
~By Bob Graham ~
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
~By Samuel Butler ~
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 ~
Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
~By Holly Near ~
The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.
~By Greg Norman ~
I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.
~By Sal Mineo ~
Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
~By Yeardley Smith ~
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 ~
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.
~By Thomas R. Kelly ~
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
~By Millard Fillmore ~
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.
~By Shelby Foote ~
If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
~By Carl Levin ~
The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.
~By Joe Henderson ~
I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.
~By Paul Kane ~
Woman was God's second mistake.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
~By Jessamyn West ~
Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?
~By Sarah Jessica Parker ~
Most of the people who get off at our exit get off by mistake. They thought it was Exit 57.
~By Tom Perkins ~
The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
~By Alvin Dark ~
It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.
~By Sophia Loren ~
We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.
~By David Dimbleby ~
Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
~By e. e. cummings ~
We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
You learn from your mistakes.
~By Thierry Henry ~
I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.
~By Arabella Weir ~
Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
~By Daniel De Leon ~
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
~By Al Franken ~
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
~By John Hawkes ~
A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.
~By Marie Louise ~
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
~By Douglas Adams ~
The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.
~By Lewis Grizzard ~
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
~By Vladimir Horowitz ~
Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
~By Fletcher Knebel ~
As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
~By John Powell ~
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
~By William Arthur Ward ~
Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.
~By Desi Arnaz ~
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
~By John Ruskin ~
I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.
~By Alberto Gonzales ~
Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.
~By James Bryce ~
I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
~By Ann Richards ~
All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.
~By Jamie Oliver ~
But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.
~By Richard Masur ~
It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.
~By Jim Saxton ~
It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
~By Boutros Boutros Ghali ~
So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
~By Vanna White ~
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
~By John Wooden ~
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.
~By George Ripley ~
In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
~By Phyllis Theroux ~
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
~By Charles Rosen ~
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
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 ~
They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women.
~By Nicolas Roeg ~
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
~By Benjamin Jowett ~
I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love.
~By Sarah Michelle Gellar ~
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.
~By Sam Sheppard ~
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.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
~By Bono ~
When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.
~By Gary Bauer ~
So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.
~By Bobby Orr ~
It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.
~By Junius ~
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 ~
Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
~By Jane Fonda ~
Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.
~By Billy Ray Cyrus ~
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
~By Les Brown ~
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
~By Peter L. Berger ~
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
~By Dale Turner ~
The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.
~By Raul Grijalva ~
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 ~
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.
~By Thomas John Watson, Sr. ~
Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.
~By Vince Gill ~
Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.
~By Tom Daschle ~
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.
~By Jeffrey Jones ~
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
~By Terry Hands ~
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
~By Billy Joel ~
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.
~By Catherine Drinker Bowen ~
I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.
~By Loretta Young ~
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
~By Clive Bell ~
Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.
~By Dick Armey ~
Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.
~By Judith Butler ~
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