Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.
I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.
If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.
I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.
As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.
The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.