#mist

I only came to serve you, and if you think otherwise, I must let you know that you are mistaken. ↗

— Jonathan Wild

#i #know #mistaken #must #only

There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#bullet #care #comes #fast #feet

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. ↗

— Marie Louise

#admission #am #blind #convinced #demoralized

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#also #anyone #capable #eagerly #else

I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#i #long-term #optimist #optimistic #our

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. ↗

— John Major

#argument #biggest #biggest mistake #both #both sides

I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts." ↗

— Mako

#changes #could #day #difficult #get

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause. ↗

— Herbert Marshall

#economist #fear #much #nothing #should

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#mistake #unnecessary #waging #war

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#everybody #except #first #immortality #mistaken