I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.
Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20.
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.
Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.
With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.
Although her disobedience is tragic, Eve’s innocence is not all bad. Certainly, that innocfence leads her to make a poor choice - the very worst - but the fact that she makes a choice at all, the fact that she engages the Devil in a debate which co...
