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- Nov 07, 2020
Mistake Quotes
On getting it wrong, and what came after.
This mistake quotes page ranges from a lighthearted dietary misstep to more serious reflections on management errors and misplaced priorities. See our Regret quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sovereignty is not just at the national level; that's the mistake of Brexit that other people make.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a 20-something woman living in London and didn't want to write about a 20-something woman living in London! It's an area well covered already, and people would probably have thought it was about me. I decided that if I wrote about an 82-year-old dementia sufferer, then no one could mistake it as a memoir.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate the new word processors that want to tell you, as you're typing, that you made a mistake. I have to turn off all that crap. It's like, shut up - I'm thinking now. I will worry about that sort of error later. I'm a human being. I can still read this, even though it's wrong. You stupid machine, the fact that you can't is irrelevant to me.
- Diverting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been living with anxiety much, much, much longer than I've been with living with alcoholism, that's for sure. I already knew from the sheer numbers and all the data that I'm not alone. I mean, the biggest mistake I did was spending most of my life thinking I was the only person who felt this way.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback on realizing that they have actually destroyed the world. Therefore I suggest that if the Earth is destroyed, it will probably be by mistake.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020