Blunders Quotes · Page 4

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

— Stand Watie

George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

— E. C. Bentley

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder...

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder

— Miguel Najdorf

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

— Mark McCormack

One need not to make big blunders ,only lack of knowledge is powerful enough to destroy.

— Senoraroy

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder…

— Jane Austen

The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity,…

— William Butler Yeats

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

— Douglas Crockford

Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead…

— Ed Asner

To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense,…

— Kenzaburo Oe

There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that…

— Arthur Helps

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had…

— Mahatma Gandhi

And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's…

— Mary Balogh

If you do your "homework" well you can be sure you'll feel more relaxed. Make sure you have a walk or rest…

— Judit Polgar

I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get…

— Steve Martin

And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer…

— James Branch Cabell

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.…

— Alice Walker

Much later, when I discussed the problem with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder…

— George Gamow

I think the number one public-relations blunder Osama has made is that he lives in a cave-fortress and if there's one thing…

— David Letterman

A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our…

— Tim O'Brien

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

— J. I. Packer

It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices.

— Robert Lepage

“Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!”

— Abhijit Kar Gupta

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

— Oliver Sacks

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.

— Scott Anderson

“I'm not a garden expert in any sense of the meaning, only someone who blunders about in the shrubbery.”

— Mirabel Osler

Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.

— Arthur Alfred Lynch

“But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.”

— Charles Darwin

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

— Sun Tzu

You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.

— Bradley Chicho

In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

— Martin Gardner

Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties

— Alexander MacLaren

“Mamma does make such delicious blunders.” “Sophie, my dear, that is not a proper way of speaking.”

— Anthony Trollope

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

— Frederick Buechner