Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The danger, though - and there have been signs of this recently - is that Europe begins to demonstrate a return to… — Lakshmi Mittal Copy Share Image
[Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The assumption that the egoless condition, or union of self and God, is man's final goal and ultimate destiny is a great… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world… — William Osler Copy Share Image
In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
I am always sorry to hear that such and such a person is going to school to be educated. This is a… — Fanny Jackson Coppin Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to say that the Chinese are not hospitable. A more graceful, hearty hospitality than that of the… — Lottie Moon Copy Share Image
If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or… — George Muller Copy Share Image
You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from… — William James Copy Share Image
One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size… — Winslow Homer Copy Share Image
I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked… — Elizabeth David Copy Share Image
Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Senator [Ben] Sanders and I share some very big progressive goals. I've been fighting for universal healthcare for many years, and we're… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Not everything in man's life is summed up in the problem of food. Anyone who thinks that a civilization can be founded… — Toyohiko Kagawa Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image