A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.
I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?
I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Never mistake movement for action... a rocking horse moves; a race horse charges towards a goal.
Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.
I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
I've hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.
How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.
Hermione Granger: Everyone, this is Loony... [too late realizing her mistake] Hermione Granger: ...Luna Lovegood.
John Oldman: Piety is not what the lessons bring to people, it's the mistake they bring to the lessons.
Roy Hobbs: I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.
Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a mistake to give too much significance to my blindness.
I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it.
