Ulysses S. Grant Quotes

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.

Cardinals are never off-base. They are often ill-advised.

Actions can have unintended adverse consequences.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

The reason my games are chaotic is that the world is chaotic, not me. I don't aim for bad endings - they just naturally come out.

Even the best intentions turn around one day... Nobody's right all the time.

People make decisions that may have one intent and yet are somehow perverted into something else. And sometimes it's because of design. Sometimes it's because of happenstance. But very often, it's mysterious to them.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.

Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shouldn't find any at all.

To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

I ask you to accept one thing. Hand on heart, I did what I thought was right. I may have been wrong. That's your call

Sometimes ruin comes for lack of judgment.

It was my decision, and I blew it, but I’m not about to say that I blew it.

As President I'll make mistakes because I'm going to do things ... and people who do things err.

The statesman must weigh the rewards of success against the penalties of failure. And he is permitted only one guess.

It’s very difficult to come to grips with how we screwed this up, but we screwed this up.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

History is the unfolding of miscalculations