Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I am a frail vessel full of errors.

Albert Einstein

I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

Alfred North Whitehead

Error is the price we pay for progress.

Alfred North Whitehead

Error itself may be happy chance.

Albert Einstein

Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

Alexander Lowen

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

Adolf Hitler

Nudity is undignified and an error of taste

We were a little stiff. We made some errors and couldn't seem to get runners on base.

Rove McManus

There is marginal room for error and you are working in front of a large crowd. Getting back on stage is something that I have really enjoyed.

John Gay

Tis a gross error held in schools, That Fortune always favors fools

Allan Bloom

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Adrian Rogers

When you choose sin the baggage that comes with it is error.

Adrian Rogers

I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.

Adam Smith

When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

Ada Lovelace

Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.

We had a pretty good game. We didn't hit but errors killed us. The players are still learning.

We need to work on getting some good wins. The league is loaded with good teams. We want to make the playoffs. Is it likely? It's possible ? we're just going to have to step it up come game day. Because we have a lot of speed we're going to play small ball. Defensively, we have to stop making errors ? not physical errors but mental mistakes.

Overall records are misleading, we are treating the PSAC West schedule as a new season and we are pushing for a PSAC playoff spot. We must execute better and our margin of error is very small right now.

Some of these errors were just the routine kind of plays. And then we get run-ruled because of it. We're not talented enough to overcome those mistakes.

Jack Kemp

I think Dick Gephardt has made a real error in calculating his possibilities for the year 2000 if that's what he's doing,

I saw the error to be, that men think that it will be something seen by the natural eye; but 'tis spiritual discernment that is needed, the eye of God in his people.

It is likely that the discrepancy is an inventory or clerical error and not truly missing samples.

Part of the reason they had errors is because we're hitting it hard. We hit some on the nose.

Billy Donovan

Our margin for error is small. We are not more talented than any team we play against.

Bruce Pearl

I am very disappointed, but Kentucky played a terrific second half. We must focus on playing better. Every night we have had intense games, and there is no margin of error for this team.

The packaging error was detected during a store inspection process.

We made too many errors tonight and we can't keep playing sloppy and win, especially when we get to the region games. On the positive side, we scored in every inning but one.

We made too many errors and did not have the sticks to back ourselves up.

We made some mental errors tonight that we need to get rid of. We are just real happy right now to be 5-0.

We made some mental errors and they capitalized. It took us a while to get our composure, and we were playing catch-up.

Sidney Blumenthal

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

Dale Jarrett

There are so many smart people in this business. Not that the people before weren't smart, but these people are smart in a different way and have a much better handle on what they're trying to accomplish, instead of just trial and error as we were before.

I would urge you to look toward unfortunate clerical error rather than to conspiracy.