A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.
You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt...
the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see...
she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.
We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.
I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.
The errors are made of breathtaking frequency
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
the full fury of his storming countenance with its rugged overhang of gullied forehead and huge crag...
