Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it’s a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices. – Mariella Frostrup
I made the mistake of saying I was an atheist at one point, when I was doing ‘Kingdom of Heaven.’ – Ridley Scott
I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world. – Salman Rushdie
If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent. – Ralph Marston
There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master – there must be no mistake about that. – Ridley Scott
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. – Samuel Butler
A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing to repair it. – Roger B. Taney
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. – Samuel Smiles
It’s always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan. – Richard Curtis
I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger. – Samuel L. Jackson
Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says, ‘I will make her happy,’ makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, ‘I will make him happy.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll
We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal. – Richard Dreyfuss
Sometimes I think it’s possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression. – Richard Dawkins
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. – Ring Lardner
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
My brother and sister were much older. They were planned. I was not planned for. I was called the mistake, amongst other things. – Penny Marshall
There are still some pieces that aren’t being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren’t needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake. – Ram Shriram
Some are very hostile if mistakes are pointed out. I’m not. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake. – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. – Samuel Butler
Make no mistake – LeBron James was carrying the Cavs, but Dellavedova was the cinematic element: hustle personified. – Rowan Ricardo Phillips
When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention. – Rihanna
The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world’s oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam. – Salman Rushdie
