#mist

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ↗

— Irv Kupcinet

#day #diet #new #optimist #person

It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#basis #bush #chinese #discovered #everybody

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#any #being #business #conformist #get

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry. ↗

— Joseph Glanvill

#being #belief #certain #certainty #humane

We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible. ↗

— Rob Glaser

#apple #asks #being #big #big mistake

A mistake is simply another way of doing things. ↗

— Katharine Graham

#another #another way #doing #mistake #simply

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#firmly #i #learn #live #mistakes

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#children #dr #during #family #first

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#destroy #done #foul #good #grandmother

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#beings #errors #fanaticism #human #human beings