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Mistake Quotes

I should not have been there. My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics. As a commissioned uniformed officer, it was a mistake that I have learned from.

– Mark Milley

Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S., appearing in photo-op with President Donald Trump.

Everything is up for grabs, it’s how we do it. I have always said there’s never a subject that you shouldn’t talk about or joke about. It just depends what the joke is. And people get offended when they mistake the subject of the joke with the actual target.

– Ricky Gervais

They brought me into the world. I might have been a mistake one Saturday night after the war. I must have been the greatest mistake they’ve ever made.

– Alan Sugar

Asked by Piers Morgan what he felt he owed to his parents.

Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

– John Lubbock

The Use of Life.

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

– Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts, Lucy van Pelt.

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

– Theodore Roosevelt

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

– Geoff Hoon

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

– Horatio Nelson

Make no mistake: business forces, if used long-sightedly, are the tools for leveraging new consumer behaviors, new and smarter ways of production, and for accelerating the transition to a sustainable world.

– Guilherme Leal

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

– Gregg Easterbrook

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

– Hansie Cronje

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

– Herbert V. Prochnow

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

– Harlan Coben

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

– George Jessel

I think it’s a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person’s personality. Don’t we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?

– Gary Frank

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

– Herbert V. Prochnow

As a goalie, you must stay positive. And if you do make a mistake, well, those things happen when you play my position.

– Henrik Lundqvist

The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we’ve run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don’t like needful moments and therefore we resist them.

– Guy Finley

John Howard Davies was not a very human person… if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

– Graham Chapman

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

– H. P. Lovecraft

Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.

– Harold Prince

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.

– George Ripley

Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.

– Garrett Camp

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

– Jerry Saltz

If you make a mistake, people are going to know about it really fast – and I was making a ton of them when I was a kid.

– Jason Bateman

I was doing the ‘Vogue’ fashion awards when I was 16, live on VH1. I was coming down the steps, and I’m a really hard walker. I hadn’t had a mistake yet in my career. Everything had been perfect. So I come down the steps on live TV, and I slip. I didn’t fall, but you could see the look on my face. I was mortified. I was devastated.

– Jessica White

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

– James Altucher

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

– John Major

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.

– Judith Butler

Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.

– James Surowiecki

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