It's possible to make a mistake. We're only human.


Billy Baldwin

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To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
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We finished second in the section last year and our only two losses were to Baldwin. I expect the se...
FRANK STAFFEN
To make a mistake is human, but to blame it on someone else, that's even more human.
SHORT QUOTES
The only mistake I really don’t make is that I never make the same mistake again.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.
JULIANNA BAGGOTT
Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.
WARD CLEAVER
We were significantly apart. Then I made a proposal and we were very close. Billy declined to make a...
ALAN NERO
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD
A mistake does not make a shadow. The people who you hurt through the mistake and what they decide t...
JUSTIN DAVID NEVINS
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history...
ALBERT CAMUS
A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
I used to make the mistake of assuming people were inherently smart.
JACK JOHNSON
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.
CORITA KENT
We outplayed Baldwin in the first half. Baldwin is a strong team and took over the game.
DOUG KELLY
As I tell all our folks, the only reason we exist - make no mistake - is our clients.
GINNI ROMETTY
Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
AKIO MORITA
Every mistake you make is only increasing your odds of succeeding
NICK LAPORTA
I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
BEAU BRIDGES
It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.
AL-TIRMIDHI
the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treach...
KHALED HOSSEINI
Make no mistake, little human. You are under my protection now, and I protect what is mine.
DANIELLE MONSCH
The biggest mistake you’ll make is thinking that the biggest mistake you’ll make is making a mis...
CHARLIE JAMES
One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibil...
ROBERT BUETTNER
Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake.
JOHAN CRUIJFF
The only mistake I can make is not learning from our mistakes.
JIM GENOVESE
We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.
BEN BRADLEE
Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize ...
CHIANG KAI-SHEK
Before Johan Cruijff is going to make a mistake, he isn't making that mistake. making that mistake.
JOHAN CRUIJFF
I appreciate that he pulled a Billy Koch and we were able to win.
BILLY KOCH
What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for '...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
[To err is human, to forgive is divine] . . . but this does not make it desirable to make as many er...
ROGER WILLIAMS
Its only a matter of time now before complete human integration!
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER
Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
AKIO MORITA
It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but ther...
NATSUKI TAKAYA
I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of bei...
JOHN TRUDELL
One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a diffe...
BOB RILEY
Forgiveness is only possible,when we learn to overlook human errors & faults through the eyes of lov...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
If variety were to be a course & the human flesh its student,the human flesh will score 1000% in var...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
EDMUND BURKE
If I were a magician who could make things possible, I'd have lemonade always tasting as it did on t...
SAšA STANIšIć
We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS
We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to unders...
F. SIONIL JOSE
We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between b...
STEPHEN HAWKING
It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.
NEIL GAIMAN
We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it...
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR
We do our very best. But we are human beings and once in a while we make an error. It was an honest ...
DEBORAH CLARK
It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to ...
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE
A MISTAKE IS A MISTAKE ONLY WHEN WE LEARN NOTHING FROM IT.
JOB LAZARUS OKELLO.
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every...
ALFRED ADLER
a simple brain freeze, the sort that all human beings are subject to. On the other hand, it is at le...
CASS SUNSTEIN
Before I made a mistake, I did not make that mistake.
JOHAN CRUIJFF
Billy Wilder once told me, 'Make 'em personal,' ... 'But make 'em for the people.'
CAMERON CROWE
All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two op...
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET
If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible.
BERNARD M. BARUCH
It was a classic race. We were pushing really hard. Someone was going to make a mistake, and it just...
HANK MCGREGOR
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only s...
PETER F. DRUCKER
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only s...
PETER DRUCKER
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members...
HARRY S TRUMAN
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members
HARRY S TRUMAN
Alec Baldwin is so funny.
RYAN LOCHTE
“its the quiet ones that have the biggest heart in them, its the humble ones who can see the bigge...
CODY MATTHEW ROCK
We contacted them to see if it was possible to make a donation like this and the chaplain there welc...
MELODY KNOLES
If you make a mistake, it's not a mistake. It's your own variation.
LYNN SEABERG
If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ
Religious persecution is the strongest statement its perpetrators can make that their particular bel...
DAVID L. HATTON
Life is to make an IMPACT, its not only to make INCOME
SIVAPRAKASH SIDHU SIVAPRAKASH G SIVAPRAKASH GOPAL, SIVAPRAKASH SIDHU, SIVAPRAKASH SIDHU
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
I don't think you can make a mistake in places like L.A.. The prices are ungodly, but they're only g...
DON SMITH
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only s...
PETER DRUCKER
Being afraid to make mistakes is a mistake.
SCOTTIE SOMERS
I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you re...
BOB SCHIEFFER
Billy Jack did an outstanding job. He did what he was supposed to do. Anything [Horatio] came up wit...
ROBERT WEBB
We want to make sure that the police department is not disbanded and that we have a continuity of po...
FRED TROMBERG
I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you h...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
CONFUCIUS
I advise them not to make a historic mistake.
JAVAD VAEEDI
I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself ...
LISA KUDROW
You can never make the same mistake twice because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, i...
STEVEN DENN
Human life must be some form of mistake
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ...
ANNE RICE
It takes only an apostrophe to make the word impossible possible according to the word itself.
ASARE BEN CHRIS(ABC)
We have to make sure we can do everything possible not only to improve bilateral trade,
JAY MYERS
The only thing is "we are humans" and the best thing is "humans were born to make mistakes" .. so ch...
NEHA KOTHARI
A global deal will only be possible if Britain plays its part, leading the way with other developed ...
LUCY POWELL
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has...
MILAN KUNDERA
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the...
NASH GRIER
If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
MARVA COLLINS
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possibl...
MITCH RATLIFFE
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possibl...
MITCH RATCLIFFE
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history-with the possible ...
MITCH RATCLIFFE
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible...
MITCH RATLIFFE
This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is ne...
DAVID BOHM
An expert is a person who has made every possible mistake in a small field of study.
ANONYMOUS
Suspension is possible only if the case has not yet entered its investigation phase. So neither susp...
HUN SEN
As the world takes prudent measures to prepare for a major human pandemic, greater measures must be ...
JACQUES DIOUF
Nuestro mayor error en todo el mundo es nuestra insistencia en considerar cada nuevo acontecimiento ...
ANNE RICE
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
JOHN RUSKIN

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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other his...
JAMES BALDWIN
An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wre...
JAMES BALDWIN
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience...
JAMES BALDWIN
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
STANLEY BALDWIN
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity f...
MONICA BALDWIN
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world...
JAMES BALDWIN
The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the pa...
JAMES BALDWIN
Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours.
JAMES BALDWIN
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called ...
ROGER BALDWIN
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting...
JAMES BALDWIN
The future is... black.
JAMES BALDWIN
Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom...
JAMES BALDWIN
Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. Peop...
JAMES BALDWIN
James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no on...
JAMES BALDWIN
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES BALDWIN
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own e...
JAMES BALDWIN
Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.
JAMES BALDWIN
Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
JAMES BALDWIN
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is...
JAMES BALDWIN
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
JAMES BALDWIN
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, ...
JAMES BALDWIN
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, fo...
JAMES BALDWIN
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion...
JAMES BALDWIN
There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one ou...
JAMES BALDWIN
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita...
JAMES BALDWIN
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themsel...
JAMES BALDWIN
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a s...
JAMES BALDWIN
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWIN
People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWIN
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly si...
JAMES BALDWIN
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, ...
JAMES BALDWIN
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forc...
JAMES BALDWIN
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibilit...
JAMES BALDWIN