Mistake Quotes

• Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Mistake

• I was wondering — I mean — could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked to come here. You would not have called me unless I had been calling you.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Mistake

• And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Mistake
  • Prejudice
  • Ridiculous

• The discussions have revealed the mistake, but not explained the problem, since even if you know what you will understand it for democracy.

  

  Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
  • Problem
  • Mistake
  • Discussions

• Ask Me Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried to help or to hurt: ask me what difference their strongest love or hate has made. I will listen to what you say. You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.

  

  William Stafford
  • Done
  • Hate
  • Hurt

• I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • Different
  • Knowledge
  • Mistake

• Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Song
  • Mistake
  • Clever

• What did I tell you, Mr. Pippin?' said Sam, sheathing his sword. 'Wolves won't get him. That was an eye-opener, and no mistake! Nearly singed the hair off my head!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Hair
  • Sword
  • Wolves

• The biggest things for us is to improve over last week. We made way too many mistakes and missed too many assignments. Hopefully getting a game under their belts will help us this week.

  

  Bob Lutz
  • Game
  • Mistake
  • Improve

• Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Mistake
  • Skin
  • Illusions

• I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only a small portion to descend to his relatives. Even if he has children, I consider it a mistake to hand over to them considerable sums of money beyond what is necessary for their education. To do so merely encourages laziness and impedes the healthy development of the individual's capacity to make an independent position for himself.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Men
  • Children
  • Independent

• I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • Work
  • Mistake

• When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!"

  

  Benjamin Zander
  • Mistake
  • Hands
  • Fascinating

• Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

  

  Minna Antrim
  • Mistake
  • Intuition
  • Feminine

• If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.

  

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.
  • Trying
  • Mistake
  • Enough

• I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • Justice
  • Mistake

• The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.

  

  Frederick William Robertson
  • God
  • Words
  • Mistake

• When we make our own calculations, we need so many numbers and factors that any mistake is possible. The Lord's calculation boils down to love.

  

  Adrienne von Speyr
  • Love
  • Lord
  • Calculation

• Forgetting the importance of national landscapes, cultures, national behaviours, reactions, and reflexes is a big, big mistake.

  

  Jean-Claude Juncker
  • Mistake

• A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Management

• This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

  

  Clarence Day
  • World
  • Mistake
  • Infirmity

• The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

  

  Mehmet Oz
  • People
  • Mistake

• The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.

  

  Witter Bynner
  • Problem
  • Decision
  • Could

• When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'

  

  Kelly Reilly
  • Mistake

1

...

57

58

59

60

61

...

80

previous

next