One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties. . . I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.
A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this
The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State. . . steps in, and helps him catch and fleece his victims. The old plea of despotism, that liberty is unsafe, reappears now in the mistaken notion that competition is hostile to labor.
The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.
Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.
Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.
Mistaken, always second guessing, underestimated, look I'm still around.
Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
Unfortunately, I've never been mistaken as Johnny Depp.
I am an ambassador," Akretenesh warned me, anger bringing his confidence back. "You cannot shoot. " "I don't mean to," I reassured him, still smiling. I adopted his soothing tones. "Indeed, you are the only man I won't shoot. But if I aimed at anyone else, it might give others a dangerously mistaken sense of their own safety. " I raised my voice a trifle, though it wasn't really necessary. "We will have another vote, Xorcheus. " They elected me Sounis. It was unanimous.
Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness.
Bravery and Stupidity can often be mistaken for the other.
I don't think I've ever been mistaken for anyone.
In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.
To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.
I believe love just happens once. You can be mistaken, you can think you are in love, but after a while you discover that youre really not. Real love is different.