#mistakes

When the watermelons were as large as a child's head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush that no one could eat, not the children, not the cow. ↗

— Annie Proulx

#historical #humorous #mistakes #food

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

#ask #before #both #feel #get

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#necessities #out #political #sometime #turn

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#corrected #dogmatism #facts #mistakes #pay

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else. ↗

— Britney Spears

#called #else #everybody #everybody else #i

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of. ↗

— Scott Stapp

#despised #feel #felt #i #lot

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#doing #honorable #making #making mistakes #mistakes

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. ↗

— Frank Capra

#cried #cries #drama #i #made

I'm still a big kid - I make mistakes all time. ↗

— Seann William Scott

#i #kid #make #mistakes #still

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. ↗