Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past. . . Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.
Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.
My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity. . . servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes. . . and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism.
Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not become different, everything will be repeated again, all foolish blunders, all silly mistakes, all loss of time and opportunity - everything will be repeated with the exception of the chance you had this time, because chance never comes in the same form. You will have to look for your chance next time. And in order to do this, you will have to remember many things, and how will you remember then if you do not remember anything now?
In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away the most changes are the result of mistakes pure and simple slips of the pen, accidental omissions, inadvertent additions, misspelled words, blunders of one sort or another.
Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives. . . The Young Man Who Was. Let us drink to his dreams, for they were rainbow-colored; to his appetites, for they were strong; to his blunders, for they were huge; to his pains for they were sharp; to his time for it was brief; and to his end, for it was to become one of us.
"Government gets things right" does not encourage sales. "Government makes another blunder" does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.
You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.
The indulgence in grief is a blunder.
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.
One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season.
In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it yourself. Against the computer, you make only one mistake - the last one.
It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
