Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Bennett

Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon.... Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get quite as much solitude as is good for you every twenty-four hours. Constant change and distraction -- that's what wants arranging for. Solitude will arrange itself.

Arnold Bennett

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Look, you're not going to get me to say that Democrats don't make mistakes. We do. I mentioned two areas - pension reform and seniority and tenure. I've done both - I've advocated for both. I've advocated for - seek for reform as well.

Derek Jeter

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

Kurt Vonnegut

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Bill Murray

I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.

Cheryl Strayed

I actually don't have any fear of people reading Wild and going out unprepared. Because one of the best things that ever happened to me was that I went out unprepared. And when you really think about it, all I did wrong was that I took too much stuff, which is the most common backpacker mistake. The part that I wasn't prepared for is the part you can't prepare for.

Chanakya

Low minded people are fraudulent, wicked and chaeat. They shouldnot be trusted. To h ave faith in low minded ones is mistake in policy and useless because they are not trustworthy. An administrator should not invited calamity by trusting the low minded ones.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.

Bob Ross

Ever make mistakes in life? Let's make them birds. Yeah, they're birds now.

Beth Moore

Make no mistake: Satan’s specialty is psychological warfare. If he can turn us on God (“It’s not fair!”), or turn us on others (“It’s their fault!”), or turn us on ourselves (“I’m so stupid!”), we won’t turn on him. If we keep fighting within ourselves and losing our own inner battles, we’ll never have the strength to stand up and fight our true enemy.

Bill Walton

The medical device tags that are being used [in the USA] are a terrible mistake. Why are we taxing people for trying to save lives and trying to make lives better, make peoples lives healthier? Those taxes should be placed on alcohol, tobacco, junk food, guns. Those are all the things that destroy health.

Bryan Ferry

When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

Catherine Deneuve

Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.

Cary Elwes

I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.

Carolina Herrera

Mistakes in life teach you how to succeed because you want to try again and do it better.

Carlos Slim

It is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small

Carlos Slim

Mistakes are normal and human. Make them small, accept them, correct them, and forget them.

Carl Levin

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

George H. W. Bush

would be a mistake for the security of this country.

Billy Ray Cyrus

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

No matter our distress, no matter our sorrow, no matter our mistakes, our infinitely compassionate Heavenly Father desires that we draw near to Him so that He can draw near to us.

Dick Cavett

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

Earl Butz

I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.

Edwin Land

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Edwin Land

A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.

Edward Kennedy

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

Bobby Orr

So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.

Bobby McFerrin

Sometimes mistakes are the best thing that can happen, because they might lift you...out of your complacency, and open your mind up to a whole other area that you wouldn't have gone to intentionally.

Benjamin Franklin

Do not fear mistakes.

Benjamin Franklin

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.

Biz Stone

Doing startups is all about making mistakes.