What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.

I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes which was just wrong as it gave me a sad puppy-eyed look.

I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns which I still do I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others we convince ourselves.

I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.

Formerly when religion was strong and science weak men mistook magic for medicine now when science is strong and religion weak men mistake medicine for magic.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen to talk to have a conversation - or a relationship.

Positive adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

If you're not making mistakes then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics mistakes are wounding emotionally but you recover. Personally wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms helps me reflect and in the process restore my creativity.

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

In politics... never retreat never retract... never admit a mistake.

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

It's a great mistake I think to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them understand them thoroughly. After that it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate because it defines our limitations.