Mistake Quotes
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Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.
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There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.
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Every person on earth learns it’s lesson by making different mistakes. The only source of knowledge is experience. Experience avoiding the mistakes you already made.
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Sovereignty is not just at the national level; that's the mistake of Brexit that other people make.
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A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant or ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. Neurotics are heartless.
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No mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.
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You learn more from your mistakes than you do from your successes.
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I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.
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It was a mistake of mine to tell the lads that this lot don't score too many goals - and statistically they don't - but then they go and score seven.
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It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.
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It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.
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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
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The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.
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I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated, I made a losing mistake.
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Everything has to be perfect in my business. Because when there is a mistake I am the one who is responsible.
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There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.
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I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only the suicides of Sappho, Lawrence Hope and Charlotte Mew, their despair rate has been very high.
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My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
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We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.
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The rejection of the Constitutional treaty by voters in France was a mistake that should be corrected.
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The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there.
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When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.
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When defeated ask yourself what mistakes invited the attack. This kind of positive thinking any fighter must possess.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
