55 Mistake Quotes

It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should have. He could have taken a different position. . . . but he didn't do that, and as a result, in my view, he had a hand in the destruction of thousands of Red Army fighters in the Kharkov campaign.

I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.

'I got confused. I thought it was a K.Y. scare, so I bought 2000 jars of personal lubricant. I still have some.'

It's human to make mistakes - and some of us are much more human than others.

I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind.

But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.

It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake

US forces think they know the location of Saddam Hussein's sons...Uday, Qusay and Gary.

You helped our nation celebrate its Bicentennial in 17- [hastily corrects himself] in 1976. [Queen gives him a sharp look and mutters inaudibly] She gave me a look that only a mother could give a child.

I'm escaping (door mishap at a press conference)

Somebody muffed it?? Somebody wanted to joke.

I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke.

Prentice: What this young woman claims is a tissue of lies. Match: This is a boy, sir. Not a girl. If you're baffled by the difference it might be as well to approach both with caution.

That's Stump and that's another track in the forthcoming Peel Sessions EP series, if you see what I mean. It's not quite that but I'm not gonna try and reconstruct the sentence in front of you.

Oh, wait, that was Randal...nevermind...

That sounds good let me just put this pen behind my ea--whoops! It fell because I'm hardcore! I'm hardcore! I'm hardcore!

The principles of strategy are written down here in terms of single combat, but you must think broadly so that you attain an understanding for ten-thousand-a-side battles. Strategy is different from other things in that if you mistake the Way even a little you will become bewildered and fall into bad ways.

Pour grands que soient les rois, ils sont ce que nous sommes: Ils peuvent se tromper comme les autres hommes.

I locked my keys in the car the other day. But it was alright; I was still inside.

'You can't even say it!' (To Jerry Lawler when he stuttered and couldn't pronouce 'World Wrestling Federation Championship')

'Ace has won!' cried Hermann, showing his card. 'Your queen has lost,' said Chekalinsky, politely. Hermann started; instead of an ace, there lay before him the queen of spades! He could not believe his eyes, nor could he understand how he had made such a mistake. At that moment it seemed to him that the queen of spades smiled ironically and winked her eye at him. He was struck by her remarkable resemblance... 'The old Countess!' he exclaimed, seized with terror.

once I was open, could hope, I had no doubt but that was the worst thing that I could do

once I came close to that most elusive fire burning with hopeless love and desire but it was just about the worst thing that I could do it was just about the worst thing I could do

We all had a better idea. We all knew that you were wrong. We knew it from the beginning

But she could see that she had wounded him. He had been stupid, but he was smart enough to recognize the fact

Even if you're a blind guy who wants to be clean, you're gonna miss the toilet someday, ya know?

I'll plead no more! I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free!

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

'I puked in Greece, what have you done?'

It has been a severe lesson for Andy, but I do not think he will do it again.

'By the Lion's Mane, a strange device,' said King Peter, 'to set a lantern here where the trees cluster so thick about it and so high above it that if it were lit it should give light to no man!' (ch. 17)

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument!

'Summer, you're fired! (To Tarek)...and you didn't make it by far,with her own stupidity, she saved your ass!'

They set off from Plymouth and landed in Plymouth. How lucky is that? 'This is Plymouth? We've just come from Plymouth! We've gone round in a circle, guys, back on the boat.'

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

Ohne Musik ware das Leben ein Irrtum.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment - but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake.

Jack: Don, you're hanging yourself.

Bob: Welcome to the Lucky Strike Program. In just a few minutes, you'll see our star, Gypsy Rose Benny.

He made a mistake, you know? And if he hadn't done this particular thing that night, it wouldn't have been... but he was... it happened. (1995)

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

I charged into something which might have been a tree, but was not--being, in point of fact, Jeeves.

Don Wilson: [Poking his head through the curtains] Bob, Bob, quick, give me Jack's pants