Mistake Quotes

The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They've been given directorships in every major company. They're billionaires!

~ Wilbur Smith

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

~ Ken Robinson

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

~ Bertolt Brecht

The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.

~ Shaun Tan

I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake, you're dead.

~ James Mcavoy

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

~ Al Franken

I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.

~ Leonardo Dicaprio

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

~ Deborah Tannen

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

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

~ Phyllis Diller

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

~ Millard Fillmore

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

~ Pat Robertson

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

~ Hank Aaron

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

~ Annie Dillard

That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

~ Naomi Klein

The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or malice - is the very reason we need to eliminate them altogether.

~ Valerie Plame

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

~ Denis Villeneuve

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

~ Alfred Austin

We rent one in three tuxedos in the U.S. and Canada, and if we make a mistake, our employees will deliver to the customer's home, office, or wedding. We get a couple hundred letters a week praising the service in our stores.

~ George Zimmer