#stake

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#back #because #becomes #choice #everything

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#branch #engineering #forgiving #least #mistakes

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves. ↗

— Junius

#holy #mistaken #others #ourselves #persuading

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake. ↗

— Junius

#mistake #never #right #should #wrong

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#america #considered #dwell #heads #keep

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#far #greater #inaction #making #mistake

I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#between #california #counties #different #hope

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#black-and-white #bush #every #evil #george

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.' ↗

— David Hockney

#corner #doing #enough #exploited #i

It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#championship #countries #cup #cup finals #drew