Quotes by Mistake Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform. Giuseppe Verdi mistakewritingtwo Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies. George Eliot errorsmistakemean To me, I always listen to what my instincts tell me. The biggest mistakes I've ever made is when I've ignored what I know to be true in my heart. Glenda Bailey ignoredmistakeheart Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me. George W. Bush responsibilitymademistake Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live. Glenn Beck faultserrorsmistake The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else. George Bernard Shaw he-manmistakemen The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things he doesn't want you to do and you'll burn for a long time if you do them - and private property, which I think is at the core of our failure as a species. That's the source of my indignations, my dissatisfactions, however it comes out on the stage. I feel betrayed by the people I'm part of, these creatures, these magnificent creatures. George Carlin mistakementhinking There are young people today who feel that we shouldn't have developed the atomic bomb, that it was a mistake. Through no fault of their own, they don't have this sense of history. They didn't live through this most terrifying period when we thought we were losing the race with Adolf Hitler. Glenn T. Seaborg mistaketodaypeople It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken. Gertrude Stein mistake Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears. George Eliot selfmistakelying The only way to avoid making mistakes is not to do anything. And that will be the ultimate mistake. Goh Keng Swee ultimatemistakeway If we give all of the people who filed incorrect tax returns the benefit of the doubt and assume that every single one of them simply made an honest mistake, then doesn't common sense tell us that maybe the tax code is just a little too complex? Glenn Beck common-sensemistakepeople An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly. George R. R. Martin kingsmistakefall Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error. Gordon Moore entrepreneurerrorsmistake One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of mistakes. Gordon Moore leaderdoemistake Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say. Gordon Lightfoot namesmistakerelationship Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning. Gilbert K. Chesterton painmistakemorning It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked. Gore Verbinski hollywoodspacemistake Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable. Gorgias errorsmistakemen There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous. Gilbert K. Chesterton errorsimportantmistake«105106107108109110111112113114115»
