God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.
It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
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.
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.
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.
The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present his understanding of it. Censorship in his case has perpetrated heavy and sometimes reprehensible blunders.
Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.
Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
The indulgence in grief is a blunder.
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.
It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr. , C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute. ]
To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.
"Government gets things right" does not encourage sales. "Government makes another blunder" does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.
A successful career has been full of blunders.
A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit but rather describe and expand up on those mysteries.
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.