Mistake Quotes

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
Wietse Venema

Write, Fail, Either

But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.
Geraldine Ferraro

Someone, Afraid, Congress

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.
Nick Rahall

Children, Free, Wish

The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.
Maggie Stiefvater

Work, End, Book

I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.
Jim Jarmusch

Last, Year, Vacation

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
Alain Prost

Good, Hard, Different

I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
Hansie Cronje

Big, Again, Realized

The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this.
Terrence Howard

Thinking, Career, Try

To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
Zack Snyder

Money, Enough, Dead

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
Walter Lang

Perfect, Holy, Spirit

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
Alphonsus Liguori

Great, Him, Before

Every decision you make is a mistake.
Edward Dahlberg

The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.
Neko Case

Time, Whole, Bible

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.
John Dingell

Great, War, Friends

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there.
John Dingell

Leaving, Affairs, Charge

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
Steve Forbes

Failure, Same, Deal

But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.
Gregg Easterbrook

Forever, Press, Button

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
Donal Logue

Cut, Rough, Filmmakers

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.
Ken Thompson

Serious, Reason, System

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
Mercy Otis Warren

Nature, May, State

There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
Damon Hill

Life, Time, Important

It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.
Peter Hook

Amazing, Lose, Copy

We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.
Anthony Weiner

America, Republican, United

Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.
Anthony Weiner

Woman, Night, Down

And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.
Sanford I. Weill

Trying, Learn, Rather

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.
Jose Maria Aznar

Order, Avoid, Grave

Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.
John Doolittle

Alone, Long, Danger

Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.
Michael Patrick King

Alone, Mind, Gay

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
Ben Elton

Hard, Try, Away

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
Brian De Palma

Good, Bad, Friends

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