Blunders Quotes
147 quotes by 124 authors
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of…
— Carl Sandburg
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One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember…
— Marlo Thomas
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The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be…
— Lewis Thomas
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along,…
— Alice Walker
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A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders,…
— Tim O'Brien
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Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq…
— Robert Baer
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No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then,…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have…
— Baltasar Gracian
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It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full…
— Tom Clancy
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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you.…
— Og Mandino
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Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in…
— William Goldman
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish…
— Robert Burns
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Did the priest you mentioned tell you about them? Or did he send you out to blunder along on your own?They're an odd lot. Half…
— Hilari Bell
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If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections.…
— David Mitchell
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Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a…
— Paulo Coelho
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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