The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation – or a relationship. – Deborah Tannen
Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation. – Fletcher Knebel
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. – Dan Savage
It would be a very serious mistake for the U.K. to vote to leave the European Union, and I think it would be democratically indefensible for Scotland, if we had voted to stay in, to face the prospect of being taken out. – Nicola Sturgeon
At town meetings, you can see the shy folks, the ones who have trouble sounding off in public, leaning against the back wall or bending over their knitting. On talk radio, those people are invisible, but they’re there. It’s a mistake to think that the blowhards who call in speak for the nation. – Donella Meadows
It’s not whether you fall or make a mistake, it’s what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It’s not how many times you fall, it’s how many times you stand up. – Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
I have said many times that it’s a mistake to bet against the long-term health of the U.S. equity markets because it’s a mistake to bet against the long-term health of the U.S. economy. – Gerry Schwartz
Sovereignty is not just at the national level; that’s the mistake of Brexit that other people make. – Emmanuel Macron
The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. – Paul Ryan
There’s all kinds of mothers, so to use the label ‘mother’ and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she’s a mother, is a mistake. – Phylicia Rashad
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. – Edmund Burke
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. – Edward Gibbon
It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his effects and singular style. – Clive Sinclair
Yes, you make mistakes in the old cases where you really think you know who the suspect is, and you probably do, and you make the mistake of relying on people. – Mark Fuhrman
It’s no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea. – Michael Redhill
Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, ‘You can’t be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.’ – Naomi Wolf
I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you’ve written. If you use a typewriter, you must retype if you make a mistake, and thus, you must re-examine every word. – Edith Pearlman
The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test. – George W. Bush
While romanticizing the Senate of yore would be a mistake, it was certainly better in my father’s time. – Evan Bayh
An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he’s making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that’s one mistake I try not to make. – Peter Beard
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. – Denis Diderot
Pretty much from 1979 through 1988, the backbone of my career was the theater. Working on Broadway a couple of times, working off-Broadway, and also doing a lot of regional theater. Make no mistake, I lived very frugally. I had an apartment that was real cheap. I would get two or three jobs per season, and in between I’d be on unemployment. – Delroy Lindo
While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren’t kings. They aren’t dictators. They’re answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation. – Eden Robinson
If you’re going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you’re going to slow down the extent to which we’re able to reduce unemployment. So I think it’s a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes. – Dick Cheney
If you don’t deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society. – Denis Villeneuve