#mist

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#could #crushed #especially #etiquette #feel

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own. ↗

— Billy Joel

#made #mistakes #only #own #things

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#how #iii #learned #like #make

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace. ↗

— Thomas R. Kelly

#economic #god #loving #mistaken #nature

Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#choice #convinced #decide #decision #feeling

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#carried #coding #creates #future #generation

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#pessimistic #unseemly

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#conformists #dead #honors #living #troublemakers

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake. ↗

— David Nalbandian

#court #frustrated #get #here #mistake

If people are not making mistakes, they are not trying new things. If they are making the same mistake twice, they are not learning new things! ↗