“The Psblurtex is an 18-inch long anaconda that hides in the gentlemen's outfitting departments of Amazonian stores and is often bought by mistake since its colors are those of the London Reform Club. Once tied around its victim's neck, it strangles him gently and then claims the insurance before running off to Germany where it lives in hiding.” LongRunningMistakeColorHumorousClaimsVictimClubsLondonStoresReformGentlemanGermanyDepartmentNecksHidingInchesTied Author:Mike Harding
“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man.” MenGivingHumansMeanDoeFeelingsCareFallHuman BeingsActingMistakeMoralFateDesignCreaturesEmpathyBuiltFellowsVictimIndifferenceIslandsTwistsSpectatorsDetachedLiving CreaturesTheoremsAndroidsActing OutDonne Author:Philip K. Dick
“I am arguing that it is a mistake for trans activists to focus our resources and attention on winning inclusion in legal equality frameworks, such as anti-discrimination laws and hate crimes laws, that will not provide relief from the life-shortening conditions trans populations are facing. Winning legal equality - getting the law to cast us as victims of discrimination who the state will protect - will not support our survival.” StatesLawHateWinningAttentionMistakeSupportFocusConditionsCrimeProtectSurvivalResourcesVictimCastsPopulationArguingDiscriminationReliefActivistInclusionFrameworkTransHate CrimeAnti Discrimination Author:Dean Spade
“Reality cannot be photographed or represented. We can only create a new reality. And my dilemma is how to make art out of a reality that most of us would rather ignore. How do you make art when the world is in such a state? My answer has been to make mistakes, but when I can, to choose them. We are all guilt victims choosing mistakes, and as Godard said, the very definition of the human condition is in the mise-en-scéne itself.” WorldHumansHas BeensArtSaidI CanStatesRealityAnswersMistakeConditionsVictimGuiltDefinitionsMaking MistakesHuman ConditionDilemma Author:Alfredo Jaar
“While I fully recognize I had made a mistake in the whole relationship, and I'll call it a human error, I hesitate to call myself a victim because I strongly believe one should take responsibility for their actions.” ShouldBelieveHumansMadeWholeActionMistakeResponsibilityVictimErrorsTaking ResponsibilityMade A MistakeHuman Error Author:Paula Broadwell
“The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.” IfsThinkingWantShouldMayEndsSeemsWould BeCan DoMistakeSucceedShould HaveVictimGreat MistakesThere Is HopeBad Life Author:Stephen Hawking
“I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.” SaidTwoEvilSidesMistakeFireYouthVictimAccidentsSavedBurningMaking MistakesSpidersFireflyI Make MistakesMinstrelsArsonists Author:James Thurber
“I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if the pregnancy continues, or a rape victim, or even a teenager who made a mistake. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb.” IfsWantYearsBelieveMadeEnoughBigsDiesChoicesFatherMistakeVictimTeenagerPregnancyPregnantWombMade A MistakeFourteenI Want A Woman Author:Laurell K. Hamilton
“We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288” ChoicesGrowsLossWalksMistakeFateMastersCircumstancesPagesVictimVictims Of CircumstanceEpilogues Author:Richard Paul Evans
“It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.” MayHas BeensBodyLyingFoundDifficultMistakeCasesMysterySpecialEffectsCrimeStrangeMurderVictimDetailsMysteriousFeaturesRemarkableCommonplaceStrangenessDeductionsSensational Author:Arthur Conan Doyle
“People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.” PeopleMadeGuyPoorMistakeVictimBoxingInsultDespiseMikeScrewed Up Author:Mike Tyson
“The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.” MistakeMankindPossibilityEvolutionAccountsVictimSpeciesDiagnosisHomo SapiensFutility Author:Arthur Koestler
“Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.” EndsActionMistakeHeroCircumstancesDespairVictimActiveRememberedMaking MistakesApathyCynicismPassiveAntidoteVictims Of Circumstance Author:Bradley Whitford