Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bashar al-Assad

I cannot afford to make mistakes.

Bashar al-Assad

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

Bashar al-Assad

It's not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.

Barbara Mertz

Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'And then you kissed her? You shouldn't have done that. I'm sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

Barbara Mertz

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

Arthur Koestler

The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.

Arthur Koestler

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Boredom sets into boring minds. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Art Blakey

so go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I won't raise taxes, because I do not want to punish the people for the politicians' mistakes.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you're pretty polished.

Ayn Rand

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

Benjamin Disraeli

It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be ob-tained or retained.

Benjamin Disraeli

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.

Brian Tracy

Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.

Brian Herbert

The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.

Brendan Behan

You made one mistake. You married me.

Jane Haddam

Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.

Jamie Hewlett

It’s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and every thought you have in your head grows in front of you without any mistakes; no rubbing out, starting again and getting frustrated. It’s like being in a trance - it’s a fluid - and you almost don’t remember doing the picture. Drawing is an escape from all the unnecessary things in life that get in the way of being free.

Jamie Dimon

You know, the benefit in life is to say, 'Maybe you made a mistake, let's dig deep.

Jamie Dimon

JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously its a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.

Juvenal

Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.

Edward M. Lerner

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.

Benjamin Disraeli

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

Ben Folds

I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

Carl Sandburg

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

Candy Crowley

Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.

C. S. Lewis

Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake any of them for home.

Calvin Coolidge

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.

Burton Richter

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

Bryant H. McGill

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Bryant H. McGill

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

Carson McCullers

Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose when she was in her coffin, to make certain there was no mistake; for if a breath of life was left in her, she would sit up and eat, but if she smelled the hopping-john, and did not stir, then they could just nail down the coffin and be certain she was truly dead.