Mistake Quotes

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

I would feel ill without theater. It's kind of a cliche, but every time you make a mistake, you really do have to learn from it to move on. When you're doing something live, there's no time to dwell. Hopefully you'll laugh it off, but if not, you can always take a day to hate yourself.
Nina Arianda

Time, Hate, Yourself

And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.
Gregory Harrison

Rock, Hard, Made

I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear.
Rod Steiger

Past, Him, Made

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.
Scott McClellan

War, Grave, Waging

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
Peter L. Berger

Religion, Hand, Argument

Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake.
Eric Church

Music, Career, Once

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed.
Steve Albini

Once, Band, Either

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.
Bobby Sherman

Business, Again, Show

I had one good racket, a Wilson Javelin. It was my favorite racket, and I made the mistake of putting it next to the heater. It just got so hot that it melted.
Stefan Edberg

Good, Made, Next

I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it's a mistake for me.
Cat Power

War, Used, Writer

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

Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.
John T. Flynn

Government, Enemy, Country

It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Father, Important, Wrong

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

White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.
Fannie Lou Hamer

Today, Made, Put

It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making.
Max Irons

Work, Making, Piece

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.
Elliot Richardson

Rejection, Nations, Tragic

Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
Daniel De Leon

Political, Him, Working

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
Nelson Boswell

Between, Often, Greatness

I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.
Michelle Shocked

The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it.
Jeremy Irvine

Hard, Try, Guys

Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
Patrick Carney

History, Rock, Through

Man is nature's sole mistake.
William Gilbert

I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.
Kim Wilde

Time, Someone, Enough

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
James Longstreet

War, Bad, Battle

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.
William Irwin Thompson

Culture, Within, Simply

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
Eric Allin Cornell

Life, Work, Study

I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.
Hosni Mubarak

Country, Find, Whatever

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.
Janet Suzman

Mistakes, Everything, Big

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