#stake

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#big #big enough #come #editor #enclosing

Getting married in four days was the biggest... mistake I've ever made. I have two beautiful kids, but... how can you know somebody in four days? Bonehead. ↗

— Tommy Lee

#biggest #days #ever #four #getting

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

— Carl Levin

#hard #hope #learn #make #mistakes

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#expect #interesting #look #lot #mistakes

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#afraid #already #before #craven #fright

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#fall #future #had #hopes #in the past

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#contract #else #having #make #mistakes

I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it. ↗

— Nigel Mansell

#bed #believe #challenges #full #hard

I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#big #big enough #enough #everybody #fight

An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly. ↗

— George R. R. Martin

#assuming #awful #being #decent #even