Mistake Quotes
There was nothing, she saw at once, to be hoped for in the way of interest from their clothes. She did not consciously think this, for she was having a violent reaction against beautiful clothes and the slavery they impose on one, her experience being that the instant one had got them they took one in hand and gave one no peace till they had been everywhere and been seen by everybody. You didn't take your clothes to parties; they took you. It was quite a mistake to think that a woman, a really well-dressed woman, wore out her clothes; it was the clothes that wore out the woman--dragging her about at all hours of the day and night. No wonder men stayed young longer. Just new trousers couldn't excite them. She couldn't suppose that even the newest trousers ever behaved like that...
Elizabeth von Arnim
A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes.
Roberto Burle Marx
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
Seneca the Younger
Yeah, but a mistake is a mistake even if you get away with it.
Ed Viesturs
It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
Stanley Kubrick
Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!
Evelyn Underhill
Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.
Tony Dorsett
She wore no make-up, and her small, tense face looked chronically embarrassed, as if it got attached by mistake to the wrong person.
Bel Kaufman
You might mistake understanding for forgiveness, but if you did, then the unforgiven wrong would catch you off guard, like a cramp, just as you reached for generosity.
Charlie Jane Anders
Don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
Sara Zarr
Sometimes we don't understand or we forget that there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Cherie Carter-Scott
I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.
Sandra Bullock
All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.
Michelle Alexander
Say to yourself: Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.
George Robinson
They [people] mistake fashion for style.
David Bowie
Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.
George Foreman
A commitment to growth is a commitment to risk, courage, faith, strength, hope, and a willingness to make mistakes, get back up and try again.
Christine Caine
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.
Richard Feynman
