A Quotes
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“A mistake is an accident. Cheating and lying are not mistakes, they are intentional choices.”
“A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.”
“A mistake is an experience, choice or concept it is necessary for us to have or make in order to evolve beyond it. Errors can be the launchpad of great ideas.”
“A mistake is just a temporary pause in your plan.”
Source: Choosing Glee: 10 Rules to Finding Inspiration, Happiness, and the Real You
“A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.”
Source: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
“A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it”
“A mistake is simply another way of doing things”
“A mistake is the name we give to any action in which we perceive a difference between what we intended and what has occurred. Intention fuels every dramatic action, including the writing of dramatic stories, which involves a series of dramatic actions. In the course of writing, or finding, the story that wants to get itself told, it behooves the writer to liberate the characters by finding the faith and courage necessary for setting aside one’s own conscious needs and expectations. Not to do so promotes ‘mistakes’ - i.e: confusion born of some incoherence in the emotional logic of the story). As the writer abandons his/her intentions - no matter how noble they may seem - only then does that most strange and ineffable quality we so casually refer to as ‘the magic’ have a chance of entering the story, and rendering even the ‘mistakes’ stimulating, daring and provocative.”
“A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.”
Source: Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews
“A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it”
“A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.”
“A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.”
Source: The Undomestic Goddess
“A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.”
“A mistake made is an opportunity to learning a new thing.”
“A mistake made once is an oversight. The same mistake made twice? An abberation. A blunder. But a third time?" Doktor Messerli shook her head. "Whatever's been done has been done to an end. Your will is at work. You beg a result. A repercussion. A precedent has been established. You will get what you want. And there's no need to seek out these mistakes. For now it is they who seek you.”
Source: Hausfrau
“A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.”
Source: When My Name Was Keoko
“A mistake or failure is an opportunity to learn, gain wisdom, and grow. Embrace mistakes and failures with courage, passion, perspective, perseverance, and a growth mindset.”
“A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A mistake? The most passionate night of his life was a mistake? Her first time and that’s what she thought. That grated on him in the worst way. “Is that what you think, Beth?”
“Don’t call me that.”
“Why, Beth?”
“You know I hate that name.”
“Oh, so sorry, Beth. I do apologize, Beth.” He was being petty and he knew it, but he didn’t give a damn. She’d always brought out the very worst in him.
She reached up and twisted his ear. “Ow!”
“Out of my way, Robert Lemonade,” she said casually, pissing him off in the worst way.”
Source: Truce
“A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.”
“A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable.”
“A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.”
“A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.”
“A misty vision of Francesca gazed down at me from a corner of the window. She gave me her wicked-sweet smile and the stars sparked in her pale hair. I wanted to call to her, but I had no voice. I smelled the mixed scents of her, and I imagined the lush, tropical feast I'd prepare for her on our wedding night.
I'd slip raw oysters between her lips. We'd share ripe figs and plump, dewy cherries. I'd offer her sweetmeats and honeyed milk, blood oranges peeled and ready, salty artichokes stripped down to the heart. I'd pry open a lobster shell and feed her tender morsels of meat, slowly, slowly. The flavors would mingle and mount and burst inside us like soft explosions. I wanted to believe it would all be possible.
I imagined her staring into my eyes while she dragged a buttered artichoke leaf between her teeth and sucked on the flesh. It was good. I rode through the long, lovely night on wave upon wave of pleasure, smelling her, tasting her, touching her...
I heard myself moan, and in that fierce embrace, I believed.”
Source: The Book of Unholy Mischief
“A misunderstanding is a misunderstanding. It's not the truth.”
Source: やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている 3
“A mitzvah that costs money is worth more than one that costs nothing.”
“A mix from the book: "Aren't you going to tell me why you're leaving?" Drake asked. He wasn't growling at her anymore. His voice was as gentle as she supposed one could make gravel."
"I know, but seeing as you view yourself as human, I decided that I have to court you before I can claim you as my mate."
"What, and have you pissed off at me? No thanks. I'd like to have my mate happy."
She still had her purse on her shoulder. "Spend the day with me?”
Source: Full Circle
“A mix of revenge, sadness and anger funnels into a decision that’s so simple and neat, it could fit in my pocket. I will help Kudzu destroy Aevum. Just like Magnus destroyed my mother.”
Source: Parched
“A mixtape is for the street, it's something you without necessarily thinking about it, because you have to stay in the game. It's like writing an e-mail saying hello to your friends.”
“A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to them any more. Being worse than rootless... speciesless.”
Source: The Magus
“A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.”
“A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds. Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“A mièja-votz
cal parlar de l'amor.
A bramals de la tèrra raubada,
a ponhs sarrats amb nòstre pòple,
a dents copadas, a contra-jorn,
de la lutz que de còps endevinhi.”
Source: Messa pels pòrcs seguida de Roèrgue, si
“A mn ages hs enemy because he hates his own hate. He says to himself: I hate him not because he's my enemy, not because he hates me, but because he arouses me to hate.”
Source: Dawn
“A moan escaped her lips when he brushed the back of his knuckles up her neck before gently cupping her face.
"I never run from a challenge," Sadie murmured. She pressed her breasts against him, the soft mounds of flesh searing against him.
Killian felt like he was in the middle of a game of double dog dare --- and it was a surefire bet he was going to lose. Sadie signed, a seductive sounds that made his cock twitch.
Oh yeah. Dead wolf walking.”
Source: Vampires Never Cry Wolf
“A mob has more tools at its disposal then individual actors do. Popularity—the quantity of clicks of use on any given time is tracked and exploited by algorithms online, and a mob is a critical mass. If thousands of people are linking to something about you, that will quickly become the first thing people see when they google your name, regardless of whether it's a fact checked news article or SmegmaDan69's video about what a bitch you are.”
Source: Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
“A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.”
“A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.”
Source: Known and Strange Things
“A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.”
Source: Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy
“A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.”
Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].
“A mobile home with a flat tire is a home.”
“A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand.”
“A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't”
“A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.”
“A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first thing I hear. It is impossible to be unhappy when listening to a mockingbird. So stuffed with songs it is, it can't seem to make up it's mind which to sing first, so it sings them all, a dozen different songs at once, in a dozen different voices. On and on it sings without a pause, so peppy, even frantic, as if its voice alone is keeping the world awake.”
Source: The Stargirl Collection
“A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.”
“A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”
“A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.”
“A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.”
Source: Intellectual Impostures
“A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation.”