Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert Burnet

. . . it a great error to waste young gentlemen's years so long in learning Latin by so tedious a grammar.

Rick Carlisle

I think it's a continuance of the same things we've said for a while. The margin of error for us is not great. They had 13 second-chance points and 50 points in the paint and those numbers are hard to overcome.

Richard Dyer

We try to error on the side of safety, but sometimes those judgments are not accurate,

We just have to hit smarter shots. We're hitting out too much, not challenging the block. We're making too many errors on our side of the net.

We're playing them 1-1, and we've out-hit them 4-3, and then we give up six errors. The walks are always going to come back and haunt you, but we just kept making error after error.

We've got to play catch, and we have been. I don't think we have had an error so far in league.

He made a terrible error in judgment. The program is very clear, and we're proud of it in the NFL. You're responsible for what's in your body,

I don't know exactly how many errors we made, but it was way too many.

Tatiana Maslany

I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

David Mitchell

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.

Dave Barry

Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a second it sends you an error message that requires you to call the customer-support hot line and be placed on hold for approximately the life-span of a caribou.

Carl Sagan

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.

We have no room for mistakes or error here. We have to find a way to get points.

We were trying some new things, switching people around. We were having too many hitting errors and needed more positive hits. I think it paid off.

Charles de Gaulle

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

Charles Stross

Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)

Charles Spurgeon

You say, 'On the off chance that I had somewhat more, I ought to be exceptionally fulfilled.' You commit an error. On the off chance that you are not content with what you have, you would not be fulfilled in the event that it were multiplied.

Charles Spurgeon

If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.

Alan Perlis

In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.

Edward Gibbon

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

David Ricardo

The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science.

David Hume

Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors.

David Brin

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.

Orlando Cabrera

We're going to try and make every play. Errors and making mistakes are part of the game. I don't think errors are going to keep us down. We just have to try and make the next one.

Carl Jung

In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

Carl Jung

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.

Bertrand Russell

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

Carlos Mesa

The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

Charles Mackay

Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome.

Charles Hodge

If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen like lightning from heaven; and the triumph of truth over error, of good over evil, of happiness over misery, is forever secured.

Bob Ross

Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends.