In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse. — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
While the body is young and fine, the soul blunders, but as the body grows old it attains its highest power. Again,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them,… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In actual fact, it is the State, i.e., the taxpayer who has become responsible to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the State… — Gaetano Salvemini Copy Share Image
How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I believe, but cannot prove, that global “AIDS” is a whole cluster of unrelated diseases all of which have been swept under… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“The explanation of evil is a hell of a lot more disappointing than that. It's blunders, people making blunders, whether it's raiding… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If you've made a mistake, if you've made a blunder, admit it to yourself, and then go to the people affected by… — Brit Hume Copy Share Image
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I do not believe indeed, I deem it a comic blunder to believe that the exercise of reason is sufficient to explain… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Many notorious military blunders have been set up by poor personal relationships (if not wilful taciturnity) between key participants, the need for… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history … On every level - moral, strategic, military and economic -… — Tomas Young Copy Share Image
If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The greatest blunder I have seen that almost everyone makes is to just speak their mind. It doesn't make any sense. They… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more… — George Will Copy Share Image
Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
Man always made, and still makes, grotesque blunders in selecting and measuring forces, taken at random from the heap, but he never… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Soul-the spiritual principle, the creative spark of God-cannot work if you panic. Anxiety shuts down the creative centers. When you can't think,… — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
