Quotes of: Mistake Keyword

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Henry A. Kissinger

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

John Major

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

Josh Mandel

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

Joan Rivers

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

Jimmy Stewart

I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

Dan Ariely

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

David Irving

Never mistake movement for action... a rocking horse moves; a race horse charges towards a goal.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

Jane Fonda

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.

Jaromir Jagr

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.

Jim Jeffords

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

I've hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.

Joel Kinnaman

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?

John F. Kerry

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.

Douglas Wilder

Hermione Granger: Everyone, this is Loony... [too late realizing her mistake] Hermione Granger: ...Luna Lovegood.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

John Oldman: Piety is not what the lessons bring to people, it's the mistake they bring to the lessons.

The Man from Earth

Roy Hobbs: I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.

The Natural

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.

Salvador Dali

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.

Mitch McConnell

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.

Lucille Clifton