Quotes by Mistake I think, not only Al Qaida have an ideology; they have tactics necessary to spread their ideology. And it would be a huge mistake for the United States to leave the region, to concede territory to the terrorists, to not confront them. George W. Bush terroristmistakethinking Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Harvey Mackay experiencemistakepast The one Spirit of life is given different names, the sacred names. We more easily recognize the Spirit of life by the particular name to which we are accustomed. So far we are right, but the mistake we make, and it is to our loss, is to ignore or deny the same truth because it is given to us in another form and under another name. We limit it. We say the truth existed only in that period when certain teachers came to the world, and that after that it stopped. Hazrat Inayat Khan mistakelossteacher I know something of shame...How can we not all feel it? We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own adventure and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors......I think we wake up every day with high intentions and by dusk we have routinely fallen short. Sometimes I think God created the darkness just so he didn't have to look at us all the time. Helen Simonson mistakeadventurethinking When Bridget [Jones] does finally get pregnant, she 's bound to mess it up, but what I tried to show is the importance of love and kindness rather than perfection, and the importance of support from friends who help you to laugh at your mistakes and pick yourself up afterwards. Helen Fielding kindnessmistakelaughing Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again. Helen Keller making-mistakesmistakefall It is ignorance that causes most mistakes. Harry S. Truman causesignorancemistake You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult. Helen Mirren choicesmistakewriting To err is human, to forgive is divine. Helen Prejean forgivenesschristianmistake Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake. Helen Rowland mistakelove-isgiving Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake. Gilbert K. Chesterton fadsnoblemistake Human beings make mistakes, so we all make mistakes and wrong decisions. Being able to make a decision and act upon it is not gender specific. Helen Mirren genderdecisionmistake No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has any one ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is folly. They dislike ideas, for ideas make them uncomfortable. H. L. Mencken mistakeeducationrunning At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral; in the evening I become so sentimental that I would fain drink up the Milky Way without reflecting how indigestible I should find the little fixed stars, and by night there is the Devil himself broke loose in my head and no mistake. Heinrich Heine starsmistakenight Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening. Henning Mankell information-knowledgemistakepeople We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and we mistake those mental objects for reality. We get so caught up in this endless thought-stream that reality flows by unnoticed. We spend our time engrossed in activity, caught up in an eternal flight from pain and unpleasantness. We spend our energies trying to make ourselves feel better, trying to bury our fears. We are endlessly seeking security. Meanwhile, the world of real experience flows by untouched and untasted. Henepola Gunaratana painrealmistake Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. Gilbert K. Chesterton ninemistakeideas When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake. Harry S. Truman feetmistakesweet Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate or fair. And make no mistake: here, you face death. Henri waitingdoemistake Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward. Helen Rowland lonelinessmistakelove-is«113114115116117118119120121122123»
