"There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel."

-- Charles Baxter

#Mistake Quotes #Character Quotes #Sound Quotes

“Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.”
“I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.”
“Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.”
“When you finish writing the scripts they have time to take a breath and think about everything. There's just a little more time to think. Network does not allow for that.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.”
“It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.”

Source : Victor Frederick Weisskopf, V. Stefan (1998). “Physics and Society: Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf by the International Community of Physicists”, p.74, Springer Science & Business Media
“Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.”

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