Mistake Quotes

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
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams
- May
- Mistake

Ending the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program was a serious mistake that will harm the United States and will spark a national political crisis.

Luis Gutierrez
- Political
- Action
- Serious
So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

Abraham Lincoln
- Mistake
- Slavery
- Selfish
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

William Cowper
- Men
- Intuition
- Instinct
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

Arthur Conan Doyle
The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

Mehmet Oz
- People
- Mistake
I worry because there is a basic asymmetry, an imbalance, between the two parties. For the Palestinians, it is about status and sovereignty, which could always be adjusted, while for Israel it is about security and trust. And security is something you can't adjust. If you make a mistake on the scrutiny issue, there is no going back.

Abraham Foxman