#stake

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

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

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#because #catch #know #mistake #most

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#great #had #made #many #mistakes

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong. ↗

— Murray Walker

#immediately #make #mistakes #out #prophecies

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#cruelty #disposed #man #may #mistake

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#live #made #make #mistakes #often

There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#easily #making #making mistakes #me #mistakes

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#dissension #dock #gamble #homicide #international

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#intelligence #mistakes #self-recognition #forgiveness