229 Quotes on Mistake

• A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.

  Author: Ed Wynn

• Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Never mistake activity for achievement.

  Author: John Wooden

• In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

  Author: James Wilson

• A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

  Author: Roy Williams

• I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

  Author: Maurice Wilkins

• A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

  Author: William White

• 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.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• 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.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• 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.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

  Author: Josiah Warren

• If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

  Author: Earl Warren

• You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

  Author: An Wang

• I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

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

  Author: Wietse Venema

• The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

  Author: Dale Turner

• It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

  Author: Dale Turner

• People mistake their limitations for high standards.

  Author: Jean Toomer

• 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.

  Author: Ken Thompson

• He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

  Author: Terence

• The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

  Author: Deborah Tannen

• There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

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

  Author: Janet Suzman

• You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes.

  Author: Jim Sullivan

• It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

  Author: Anne Sullivan

• I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• 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.

  Author: Rod Steiger

• When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

  Author: Willie Stargell

• The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

  Author: Madame Stael

• I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?

  Author: Yeardley Smith

• We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

  Author: Samuel Smiles

• He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

  Author: Samuel Smiles

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  Author: B. Skinner

• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  Author: Ignazio Silone

• I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.

  Author: Michelle Shocked

• The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

  Author: George Shaw

• Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.

  Author: Jerry Seinfeld

• Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

  Author: Martha Scott

• Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.

  Author: Jim Saxton

• The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.

  Author: Phil Rizzuto

• If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

  Author: George Ripley

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

  Author: Elliot Richardson

• I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

  Author: Ann Richards

• Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

  Author: Sam Rayburn

• 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.

  Author: Nick Rahall

• 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.

  Author: Alain Prost

• The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

  Author: Herbert Prochnow

• Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake.

  Author: Steve Powers

• The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

  Author: John Powell

• The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

  Author: Claude Pepper

• To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

  Author: Dave Pelzer

• As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.

  Author: James Payn

• Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

  Author: Cesare Pavese

• Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

  Author: Sarah Parker

• I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.

  Author: Rafael Palmeiro

• 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.

  Author: Brian Palma

• The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake.

  Author: Jim Otto

• The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

  Author: Adam Osborne

• So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.

  Author: Bobby Orr

• I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

  Author: Barack Obama

• I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.

  Author: Jim Nussle

• I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

  Author: Andre Norton

• Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

  Author: Kristi Noem

• Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

  Author: Horatio Nelson

• Your best teacher is your last mistake.

  Author: Ralph Nader

• Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

  Author: Edward Murrow

• Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

  Author: Akio Morita

• There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

  Author: Marilyn Monroe

• I think I made a mistake once... yeah... it was only once.

  Author: Jay Mohr

• I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

  Author: Arthur Miller

• I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

  Author: Tiffeny Milbrett

• Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

  Author: Paul Meyer

• To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

  Author: Peter McWilliams

• I knew I wanted to play "Dr Cox" really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.

  Author: John McGinley

• A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

  Author: Bryant McGill

• Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

  Author: Bryant McGill

• Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

  Author: William Mayo

• The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

  Author: John Maxwell

• Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.

  Author: Dorothy Malone

• The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

  Author: John Major

• The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

  Author: Loretta Lynn

• You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.

  Author: Lawrence Lovasik

• It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.

  Author: Sophia Loren

• There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting.

  Author: Augustus Longstreet

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

  Author: Donal Logue

• 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.

  Author: Alphonsus Liguori

• We can afford almost any mistake once.

  Author: Joe Lewis

• A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

  Author: Doug Larson

• A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

  Author: Ring Lardner

• 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.

  Author: Walter Lang

• I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.

  Author: Frank Lampard

• I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

  Author: Shia LaBeouf

• I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

  Author: Lisa Kudrow

• People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.

  Author: Peter Krause

• Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

  Author: Fletcher Knebel

• Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop.

  Author: Jurgen Klinsmann

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

  Author: Henry Kissinger

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

  Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

• Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

  Author: Edward Kennedy

• He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.

  Author: Christine Keeler

• A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

  Author: Pauline Kael

• Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.

  Author: Chief Joseph

• I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

  Author: Barbara Jordan

• I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

  Author: Angelina Jolie

• One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

  Author: Tahar Jelloun

• 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.

  Author: Jim Jeffords

• 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.

  Author: Jim Jarmusch

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

  Author: David Irving

• Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

  Author: Elbert Hubbard

• 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.

  Author: Terrence Howard

• If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

  Author: Vladimir Horowitz

• I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

  Author: Vladimir Horowitz

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

  Author: Peter Hook

• But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.

  Author: Peter Hook

• Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit.

  Author: Evander Holyfield

• I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.

  Author: Patricia Highsmith

• Never mistake motion for action.

  Author: Ernest Hemingway

• Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

  Author: William Hearst

• I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

  Author: Patty Hearst

• As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

  Author: John Hawkes

• 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.

  Author: Gregory Harrison

• Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.

  Author: Stephen Harper

• You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

  Author: Ben Harper

• It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

  Author: Garrett Hardin

• A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

  Author: Alexander Hamilton

• Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.

  Author: Robert Half

• It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

  Author: G. Gurdjieff

• Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.

  Author: Kenny Guinn

• You make a mistake, you keep going.

  Author: Linda Gray

• Don't mistake niceness for weakness.

  Author: Jennifer Granholm

• A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

  Author: Katharine Graham

• We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible.

  Author: Rob Glaser

• Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

  Author: Vince Gill

• We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.

  Author: David Gill

• We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn't been made.

  Author: David Gill

• I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

  Author: Edward Gibbon

• The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

  Author: Ava Gardner

• Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

  Author: R. Fuller

• I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

  Author: John Frusciante

• A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

  Author: Robert Fripp

• There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

  Author: Robert Fripp

• America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

  Author: Sigmund Freud

• Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

  Author: Sigmund Freud

• Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

  Author: Henry Ford

• 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.

  Author: Steve Forbes

• I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.

  Author: Bridget Fonda

• Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem.

  Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

• Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.

  Author: Neil Finn

• When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

  Author: Bryan Ferry

• 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.

  Author: Geraldine Ferraro

• I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

  Author: Sarah Ferguson

• Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

  Author: Ralph Emerson

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

  Author: Ben Elton

• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

  Author: Albert Einstein

• A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

  Author: Albert Einstein

• The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

  Author: Meister Eckhart

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

  Author: Gregg Easterbrook

• A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

  Author: Bob Dylan

• Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

  Author: Peter Drucker

• It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

  Author: Arthur Doyle

• 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.

  Author: John Doolittle

• It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

  Author: Vincent D'Onofrio

• Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.

  Author: Lexa Doig

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

  Author: John Dingell

• A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

  Author: Phyllis Diller

• APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

  Author: Edsger Dijkstra

• Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

  Author: Ani DiFranco

• I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.

  Author: Janice Dickinson

• You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

  Author: Rene Descartes

• Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

  Author: Tom Daschle

• The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

  Author: Alvin Dark

• Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.

  Author: Al D'Amato

• Every decision you make is a mistake.

  Author: Edward Dahlberg

• It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

  Author: Richard Curtis

• The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.

  Author: George Crook

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

  Author: Hansie Cronje

• Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

  Author: Bill Cosby

• Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.

  Author: Joan Collins

• It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

  Author: Lydia Child

• I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

  Author: Michael Chertoff

• I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.

  Author: Gary Cherone

• Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.

  Author: Lois Capps

• If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

  Author: Miguel Cabrera

• From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

  Author: Samuel Butler

• No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

  Author: Samuel Butler

• Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

  Author: Judith Butler

• The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

  Author: George Bush

• Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

  Author: Edmund Burke

• The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

  Author: Anthony Burgess

• Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

  Author: Pearl Buck

• Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.

  Author: Tina Brown

• The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.

  Author: Sherrod Brown

• We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.

  Author: Ben Bradlee

• A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

  Author: Christian Bovee

• There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

  Author: Phyllis Bottome

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

  Author: Nelson Boswell

• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

• Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.

  Author: Brian Boitano

• Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

  Author: Tom Berenger

• I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.

  Author: James Bennett

• Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

  Author: Clive Bell

• Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

  Author: Warren Beatty

• When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

  Author: Gary Bauer

• An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

  Author: Orlando Battista

• The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

  Author: Daisy Bates

• The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

  Author: Walter Bagehot

• When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

  Author: W. Auden

• When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

  Author: W. Auden

• Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

  Author: Dick Armey

• Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot.

  Author: Alexis Arguello

• I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

  Author: Fiona Apple

• Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

  Author: Walter Annenberg

• Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

  Author: Idi Amin

• We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

  Author: Christiane Amanpour

• Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

  Author: Fred Allen

• It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

  Author: Bashar al-Assad

• It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

  Author: Douglas Adams

• It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.

  Author: Dean Acheson

• The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

  Author: Dean Acheson

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