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  • Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

    Baseball   Mistake   Ruth  
  • Hemingway always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years nobody would understand. He may have been right; it's getting to be true.

    Mistake   Years   Fifty  
    Discussion session with students at Union College on October 16, 1968. "John Dos Passos: The Major Nonfictional Prose". Book edited by Donald Pizer, 1988.
  • I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great mistake.

  • I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

    War   Mistake   Thinking  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

  • I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

    Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1966). “Themes and episodes”
  • There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

    Patience   Mistake   Men  
    Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.78, Sarah Orne Jewett
  • The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)
  • Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

  • I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

    Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)
  • One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.

  • You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.

    Mistake   Long   Eternity  
    James Joyce (1992). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.191, Wordsworth Editions
  • I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

    Clever   Mistake   Stupid  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.

    "Feature: 'There's life, there's hope': Stephen Hawking", en.people.cn. June 14, 2006.
  • One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children-unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.

    Children   Mistake   Men  
  • No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

  • Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.

    Mistake   Writing   Moon  
    Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.41, Dial Press
  • Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.

    David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.50, Penguin
  • Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

    Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press
  • It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

    "Loyalty and Sedition". Essay published in The Advertiser, 1748.
  • We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers

    War   Mistake   Struggle  
  • We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent us from pursuing the good, the true and the beautiful. But it would be a great mistake to ignore where we have come from in our attempt to determine where we are going.

    Carl Sagan (1973). “Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective”, p.6, Cambridge University Press
  • One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not.

    Wise   Mistake   Kids  
    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.

    Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2015). “Gleanings Among The Sheaves”, p.16, SHELDON AND COMPANY
  • Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

  • In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

    Mistake   Pride   Bottom  
    John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348
  • There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.

    "The New Industrial State". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter XVIII, Section 5, p. 208, 1967.
  • A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

  • Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake.

    Mistake   Thinking   Two  
    "Rand Paul Pitches Pathway for Undocumented Immigrants" by Shushannah Walshe, abcnews.go.com. March 19, 2013.
  • I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.

    Mistake   Rain   Water  
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