Blunders Quotes

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

I?m more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

Even astronomers who are as well cared for as are those of Cambridge have their annoyances, and even men as skilled as they are make blunders.

Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties

I don`t think either the Offspring or Green Day started their bands with the intention of becoming so enormously popular; that sort of fell in their laps-especially the Offspring. My attitude is if somebody blunders into the level of popularity, at least remember the human factor. These guys are still human beings and hopefully still have hearts and if you keep in touch with them rather than vilify them you may be able to encourage them to go in the right direction. What I`m hoping will eventually happen is that they will grasp the amount of power and financial clout that is now at their fingertips and use those as tools to help real people with real things the way punk politics was always designed to do before, but nobody had any money.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.