"Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

#Mistake Quotes #Errors Quotes #Cry Quotes

“I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.”

Source : Jon Ronson (2011). “The Psychopath Test”, p.165, Pan Macmillan
“Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.”
“With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie.”
“When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.”

Source : Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 14, 2004.
“Where the unveiled glories of the Deity shall beat full upon us, and we for ever sun ourseves in the smiles of God.”

Source : Ezekiel Hopkins, Charles William Quick (1863). “Memoir of the author, and expositions of the Lord's prayer and the decalogue”, p.275
“The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass?”
“A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about our political and intellectual convictions, our religious and moral beliefs, our assessments of other people, our memories, our grasp of facts. As absurd as it sounds when we stop to think about it, our steady state seems to be one of unconsciously assuming that we are very close to omniscient.”

Source : "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error". Book by Kathryn Schultz, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.
“Especially when there are difficulties in our relations, parties and statesmen in China and Japan should look over the situation from a higher point of view and preserve the political foundation of bilateral ties.”

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