Mistake Quotes

• It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Long
  • Think
  • Control

• The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was the worst political and economic mistake in American history in the last 100 years.

  

  Peter Navarro
  • World
  • American
  • History

• My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Trying
  • Honest
  • Perfection

• Let there be no mistake: John W. Nordstrom was no retail expert. But throughout his life, he did what he had to do - hopefully we all have that in us.

  

  Bruce Nordstrom
  • Life
  • Mistake

• We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.

  

  Jaromir Jagr
  • Different
  • Game
  • Hockey

• To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Want
  • Man

• They say we learn from mistakes, that’s why they mistake me.

  

  Lil Wayne
  • Why
  • Mistake

• Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Help
  • Think
  • Feeling

• I love Baltimore. It is a city with a giant heart and has remained one of my favorite places to keep returning to on tour. It is unique and beautiful, and you can't mistake it for anywhere else in the world - Baltimore is one hundred percent Baltimore.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • World
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • Mistake

• Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Bad
  • Career
  • Lost

• I accept that it was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalties to a friend. Mr Speaker, I am sorry for this. I have apologised to the prime minister, to the public, and, at the first opportunity available, to the House.

  

  Liam Fox
  • House
  • Opportunity
  • Friend

• We have lived through this mistake for 60 years now.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • Mistake

• The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Inspiration

• Now, just -- just a few minutes ago, you heard Manager Gekas talk to you about perjury, ... And probably 90 percent of what he talked to you about was perjury in the (Paula) Jones case. It appears to make no difference, though, that the House rejected this charge, for the managers do continue to dwell on it, as though somehow they could show the House from which they came that they'd made a mistake.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • House
  • Charge
  • Manager

• Videos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process. I think that we live in a very visual era, and if you make a mistake with a video, those images will accompany the song forever.

  

  Shakira
  • Music
  • Live
  • Today

• We held them 20 points under what they usually score, and we didn't even play good defense in the second half. But against good players, you make a mistake, Rashad Anderson makes the shot. You make a mistake, Rudy Gay hits a shot.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Mistake
  • Shot
  • Rashad Anderson

• If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.

  

  Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
  • Mistake

• You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

  

  Janet Suzman
  • Mistake

• We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.

  

  David Gill
  • Believe
  • Period
  • Regret

• Both China and Russia felt duped by the U.N. 'no-fly' zone resolution regarding Libya in 2011 that eventually led to the ouster of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. China and Russia had abstained from the Libyan resolution, and neither country plans to make what they regard as a similar mistake again.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Country
  • Mistake
  • Fly

• There are mothers that feel they made a mistake by having a kid at a very young age and they didn't get to live their life.

  

  LeToya Luckett Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • Live
  • Kids

• I've been left for someone...all those things...It was sometimes a surprise, and sometimes you saw t coming. The most painful was when I kept trying to get someone back. But we all make dumb mistakes.

  

  George Clooney
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Dumb

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