Miscalculations Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached. ... An apology for America's values is never the right course.…
— Mitt Romney
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Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international…
— Abba Eban
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I would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a film career for granted. It is the most awesome privilege to…
— Robert Downey, Jr.
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Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat…
— John F. Kerry
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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth.…
— Rene Daumal
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A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is…
— Rick Yancey
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You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a…
— Dennis A. Ross
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Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.
— Louis Kronenberger
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
— Barbara Tuchman
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But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
— Jeannette Walls
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There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a…
— Michael Lewis
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For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a…
— Yasmina Khadra
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I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.
— John Green
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People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and…
— Michael Howard
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It is not the errors of others, but our own miscalculations, on which we wreak our lasting vengeance. It is ourselves that we cannot forgive.
— William Hazlitt
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The heart deceives, because it is never anything but the expression of the minds miscalculations I dont know what the heart is, not I: I…
— Marquis De Sade
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