Quotes and Sayings about Wrong
"I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: President, Vietnam, Wrong)
"I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: Hope, Will)
"I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl - when I see it I'm like, oh my God - is these little tight boxers. Don't get me wrong, g-strings are fine, but those cover a little, to where it's just enough."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: God, Wrong)
"History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong."
- John Acton
(Related: History, Suffering, Wrong)
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
- Douglas Adams
(Related: Difference, Wrong)
"I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him."
- Henry Adams
(Related: Faith, History, Wrong)
"The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong."
- Henry B. Adams
(Related: Man, Woman, Wrong)
"If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, Desire, Lust, Pleasure, Self, Wrong)
"A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong."
- Stella Adler
(Related: Society, Body, Wrong)
"The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: First, Wrong)
"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Responsibility, Wrong)
"Wrong life cannot be lived rightly."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Life, Wrong)
"They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good."
- Casey Affleck
(Related: Movies, Hate, Horror, Nothing, Reason, Talking, Wrong)
"CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad."
- Roger Ailes
(Related: America, Wrong)
"It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions."
- Peter Akinola
(Related: Actions, Language, Wrong)
"The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone."
- Damon Albarn
(Related: Being, Enjoyment, Listening, Man, Wrong)
"We didn't do anything wrong... Some are frustrated that we did it this way."
- Rodney Alexander
(Related: Wrong)
"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."
- Muhammad Ali
(Related: People, Wrong)
"The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat."
- James Allen
(Related: God, Thoughts, Deeds, Harvest, Man, Will, Wrong)
"'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one."
- Rick Allen
(Related: Wrong)
"I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me."
- Isabel Allende
(Related: Age, Family, Conservative, End, Wonder, World, Wrong)
"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist."
- Stewart Alsop
(Related: Time, Dying, Man, Needs, Sleep, Wrong)
"It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them."
- Barbara Amiel
(Related: Society, Vision, Cure, Ideology, Solution, Will, Wrongs)
"My choices were never wrong."
- Anthony Anderson
(Related: Choices, Wrong)
"And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time."
- Chris Anderson
(Related: Time, Adoption, Advertising, Internet, Right, Wrong)
"People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me."
- Adam Ant
(Related: Time, People, Buying, Company, Want, Wrong)
"I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong."
- Carmelo Anthony
(Related: People, Right, Will, Wrong)
"Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia."
- Piers Anthony
(Related: Distrust, Folk, Paranoia, Will, Writers, Wrong)
"The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong."
- Antiphanes
(Related: Quest, Right, Sense, Wrong)
"The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Music, Right, Wrong)
"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Imperfection, Patience, Sin, Wrongs)
"Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Conscience, Evil, Right, Wrong)
"What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Family, People, Country, Help, Mankind, Nation, Respect, Wrong)
"Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong."
- Richard Armour
(Related: Politics, Right, Wrong, Years)
"When you're doing wrong, you're gonna think wrong."
- John Armstrong
(Related: Wrong)
"I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion."
- Darren Aronofsky
(Related: Life, Blame, Choices, End, Passion, Road, Wrong)
"I'm rarely wrong."
- Eileen Atkins
(Related: Wrong)
"It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not."
- Paul Auster
(Related: End, Night, Voice, Wrong)
"God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person."
- Saint Teresa of Avila
(Related: God, Virtue, Wrong)
"Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!"
- Roy Ayers
(Related: People, Artists, Song, Wrong)
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
- Charles Babbage
(Related: Ideas, Answers, Confusion, Machine, Question, Right, Will, Wrong)
"I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong."
- Burt Bacharach
(Related: Truth, Mistake, People, Wrong)
"If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong."
- Leonard Bacon
(Related: Government, Virtue, Laws, Nothing, Order, Slavery, states, Wrong)
"What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you."
- Erykah Badu
(Related: Words, Writers, Wrong)
"So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong."
- Walter Bagehot
(Related: Conscience, Judgment, Opinions, Will, World, Wrong)
"I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done."
- David Baker
(Related: People, Conflict, Practice, Theories, Theory, Wrong)
"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong."
- Russell Baker
(Related: Information, Misleading, Wrong)
"People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately."
- Russell Baker
(Related: People, Old, Wrong)
"I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth."
- Abu Bakr
(Related: Truth, Authority, Help, Right, Wrong)
"They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong."
- Ralph Bakshi
(Related: Wrong)
"Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win."
- John Baldacci
(Related: Wrong)
"Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth."
- Stephen Baldwin
(Related: Funny, Truth, Comedy, Wrong)
"I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color."
- Fairuza Balk
(Related: Wrong)
"Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime."
- Johnny Ball
(Related: Age, Life, Work, Crime, Desire, Discrimination, Living, Worth, Wrong)
"I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap."
- Robert Ballard
(Related: Science, Books, Earth, Ridicule, Wrong)
"Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness."
- Hosea Ballou
(Related: Happiness, Friend, Virtue, Enemy, Right, Suspicion, Wrong)
"If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind."
- Afrika Bambaataa
(Related: Politics, Artist, Mind, Racism, Today, World, Wrong)
"If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead."
- Anne Bancroft
(Related: Change, Time, Work, Wrong)
"I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."
- Tallulah Bankhead
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do."
- George Linnaeus Banks
(Related: Cause, Future, Needs, Wrong)
"People are forever finding something wrong with you."
- Brigitte Bardot
(Related: People, Wrong)
"A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same."
- Djuna Barnes
(Related: Idea, Identity, Man, Sense, Wrong)
"Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily."
- Michael D. Barnes
(Related: Company, Trying, Will, Wrong, Years)
"I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity."
- Sydney Biddle Barrows
(Related: Business, Integrity, Wrong)
"The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out."
- Ethel Barrymore
(Related: Artist, Pleasure, Wrong)
"If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong."
- Bernard Baruch
(Related: Time, Being, Fortune, Right, Sense, Wrong, Yield)
"Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."
- Bernard Baruch
(Related: Facts, Man, Opinion, Right, Wrong)
"The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come."
- Lewis J. Bates
(Related: Time, God, Hope, Harvest, Wrong)
"There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong."
- Gregory Bateson
(Related: Energy, Explanations, Prose, Tension, Wrong)
"Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin."
- Melissa Bean
(Related: Life, Financial, Bank account, Cause, Credit, Numbers, Ruin, Security, Wrong)
"006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters."
- Sean Bean
(Related: Friendship, Character, Film, Journey, Wrong)
"What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right."
- Glenn Beck
(Related: Conservative, Responsibility, Right, Wrong)
"Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy."
- Martha Beck
(Related: Love, Accuracy, Blind, Wrong)
"All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many."
- Ulrich Beck
(Related: Religion, Belief, Atheism, Modernity, Theory)
"I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility."
- Boris Becker
(Related: Time, Advice, Lawyers, Responsibility, Wrong)
"I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: People, Order, Wrong)
"I love proving people wrong."
- Ed Belfour
(Related: Love, People, Wrong)
"I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong."
- Chris Bell
(Related: People, Effort, Fool, Mistakes, Nothing, Now, Washington, Wrong)
"By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that."
- Camilla Belle
(Related: Character, Wrong)
"After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love."
- Monica Bellucci
(Related: Love, Work, Marriage, Hate, Wrong)
"Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity."
- Peter Benenson
(Related: Being, Countries, Imprisonment, Murder, World)
"Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Time, Diplomacy, Right, Saying, Wrong)
"You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!"
- Ezra Taft Benson
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."
- Jeremy Bentham
(Related: Happiness, Truth, Measure, Right, Wrong)
"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong."
- Jeremy Bentham
(Related: People, Measure, Right, Wrong)
"He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn."
- Jeremy Bentham
(Related: Right, Will, Wrong)
"He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible."
- Bruce Beresford
(Related: Wrong)
"It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute."
- Howard Berman
(Related: Wrong)
"We made too many wrong mistakes."
- Yogi Berra
(Related: Mistakes, Wrong)
"Sending our youth to war is wrong."
- Michael Berryman
(Related: War, Wrong, Youth)
"Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me."
- Justin Bieber
(Related: Business, People, Decisions, Wrong)
"Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Forget, Right, Will, Wrong)
"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Fool, Wrong)
"I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable."
- Jeff Bingaman
"For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts."
- Thora Birch
(Related: Romance, Decision, Act, Being, Help, Support, Want, Wrong)
"I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes."
- Jane Birkin
(Related: Eyes, Wrong)
"Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression."
- Otto Von Bismarck
(Related: Europe, Expression)
"Half-jokingly, I asked what was wrong with me. So we made a deal: I would run his biological research provided I had a free hand to run my new project."
- James W. Black
(Related: Project, Research, Wrong)
"Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong."
- Harry A. Blackmun
(Related: Men, Direction, Right, Today, Wrong, Years)
"That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution."
- William Blackstone
(Related: Constitution, English, Wrong)
"The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters."
- Rachel Blanchard
(Related: Brothers, Parents, Right, Sisters, Wrong)
"At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility."
- Kathleen Blanco
(Related: Responsibility, State, Wrong)
"I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!"
- Yasmine Bleeth
(Related: Men, Wrong)
"The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on."
- Robert Bloch
(Related: Thought, Blame, Man, Smile, Wrong)
"The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: Government, Job, Public, Wrong)
"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."
- William J. H. Boetcker
(Related: People, May, Right, Self, Wrong)
"If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business."
- William J. H. Boetcker
(Related: Business, Time, Wrong)
"So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously."
- Dirk Bogarde
(Related: Profession, Wrong)
"One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to."
- Peter Bogdanovich
(Related: People, Today, Wrong)
"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Nature, Physics, Wrong)
"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Mother, Water, Wrong)
"Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Guest, Kids, Wrong)
"If I wanted to do wrong, I could not."
- Louis Bonaparte
(Related: Wrong)
"If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: Direction, Running, Wrong)
"We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong."
- Bono
(Related: Thought, Answers, Questions, Wrong)
"My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them."
- Bono
(Related: Heroes, Mistakes, Wrong)
"Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see."
- Edward de Bono
(Related: Business, Ideas, Belief, Mind, School, Scientists, Will, Wrong)
"Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it."
- Pat Boone
(Related: Music, Christian, Months, Nothing, Television, Wrong)
"If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you."
- Neal Boortz
(Related: Government, Money, Work, Force, Needs, Wrong)
"I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me."
- Elayne Boosler
(Related: People, Wrong)
"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Men, Fear, Wrong)
"The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Women, Government, Development, Denial, Rights, Prosperity, Wrong)
"When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong."
- Geoffrey Boycott
(Related: Thought, Faults, Wrong)
"You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying."
- Lorraine Bracco
"It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong."
- Ben Bradlee
(Related: Day, Wrong)
"Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line."
- Richard Branson
(Related: Business, Success, Failure, Financial, Wrong)
"Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?"
- Richard Brautigan
(Related: Nothing, Perfection, Space, Wrong)
"Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that."
- Donna Brazile
(Related: Finance, Money, American, Congress, Elections, Wrong)
"There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority."
- John Breaux
(Related: People, Victory, American, First, Nothing, Wrong)
"Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong."
- Bertolt Brecht
(Related: Wrong)
"Wrong is for other people."
- Fanny Brice
(Related: People, Wrong)
"The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house."
- Jeff Bridges
(Related: End, Fun, Job, Night, Wrong)
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Life, Wrongs)
"I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!"
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Honesty, Mind, Will)
"For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them."
- Joyce Brothers
(Related: Men, Negative, Wrong)
"When Barack Obama is right, then I'll support him. When he is wrong, I'll fight him."
- Paul Broun
(Related: Fight, Right, Support, Wrong)
"What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?"
- David R. Brower
(Related: Bed, Reason, Wrong)
"A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer."
- A. Whitney Brown
(Related: Wrong)
"There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way."
- J. Carter Brown
(Related: Wrong)
"In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it."
- Jerry Brown
(Related: People, Employees, End, Managers, Wrong)
"A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one."
- Rita Mae Brown
(Related: Decision, Wrong)
"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Beauty, Force, Right, Weakness, Wrong)
"He said true things, but called them by wrong names."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Related: Names, Wrong)
"One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake."
- Robert Browning
(Related: Clouds, Fight, Right, Sleep, Wrong)
"For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough."
- Tammy Bruce
(Related: Death, Civil rights, Gay, Wrong)
"Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong."
- Jerry Bruckheimer
(Related: Thought, Journey, Military, Wrong)
"The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!"
- John Bruton
(Related: Time, Financial, May, Will, Wrong)
"Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know."
- Jeff Buckley
(Related: Love, Mind, Wrong)
"All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?"
- Buddha
(Related: Mind, Wrong)
"I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement."
- Bill Budge
(Related: Time, Agreement, May, Want, Waste, Will, Wrong)
"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
- Warren Buffett
(Related: Life, Right, Wrong)
"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."
- Charles Bukowski
(Related: Wrong)
"Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?"
- Sitting Bull
(Related: Love, Father, People, Country, Skin, Wrong)
"There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different."
- Warren E. Burger
(Related: Life, Rights, Majority, Today)
"I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith."
- Mark Burnett
(Related: Dreams, Faith, Flies, Metaphor, Name, Wrong)
"I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Music, Film, Listening, Wrong)
"What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?"
- George H. W. Bush
(Related: Being, Wrong)
"The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!"
- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
(Related: Politics, Committee, Decisions)
"I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong."
- Rocco Buttiglione
(Related: Church, Homosexuality, Right, Saying, Support, Wrong)
"The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that."
- Charles Buxton
(Related: Children, Duty, First, May)
"As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones."
- Steve Buyer
(Related: Technology, Thought, Fact, Future, Today, Voice, Wrong)
"And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn't say that. The Constitution doesn't say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn't have to even be a vote."
- Robert Byrd
(Related: Constitution, President, Vote, Wrong)
"I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail."
- Lord Byron
(Related: Men, Wrongs)
"Running with the wrong crowd will never help you."
- Ryan Cabrera
(Related: Help, Running, Will, Wrong)
"The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way."
- Jack Cade
(Related: Court, Law, Nothing, Reward, Wrong)
"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."
- Herb Caen
(Related: Immortality, Wrong)
"There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage."
- Mark Caine
(Related: Success, People, Nothing, Wrong)
"I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are."
- Alex Campbell
(Related: Change, Life, Wife, Baby, Wrong)
"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Progress, Learning, Lies, Wrong)
"We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong."
- Max Cannon
(Related: Society, Wrong)
"I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up."
- Karel Capek
(Related: Forbidden, Theft, Wrong)
"Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Health, Communication, First, Nurses, Wrong)
"If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life."
- Roger Caras
(Related: Life, May, Wrong)
"Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Science, Feeling, Wrong)
"If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial."
- Allan Carr
(Related: Attitude, Performance, First, Wrong)
"A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere."
- Allan Carr
(Related: Blame, Comedians, Will, Wrong)
"I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it."
- John Le Carre
(Related: Committee, Wrong)
"I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them."
- John Le Carre
(Related: Money, Books, Decisions, Rights, Wrong)
"Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no."
- Jose Carreras
(Related: Courage, Compromise, Job, Saying, World, Wrong)
"I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people."
- Tia Carrere
(Related: Thought, People, Wrong)
"What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people."
- Jimmy Carter
(Related: People, American, Hurt, Will, Wrong)
"To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her."
- Barbara Cartland
(Related: Personality, Sleep, Will, Woman, Wrong)
"Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason."
- James Carville
(Related: Reason, Right, Wrong)
"In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: Time, God, Action, Injury, Respect, Worship, Wrong)
"The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless."
- Robert Casey
(Related: Abortion, Commitment, Party, Wrong)
"I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike."
- Rosanne Cash
(Related: Country, Wrong)
"My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that."
- Shaun Cassidy
(Related: Idea, Right, Writing, Wrong)
"To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves."
- Carrie Chapman Catt
(Related: Future, Needs, Right, Wrongs)
"I'll rail against what I think is wrong."
- Neil Cavuto
(Related: Wrong)
"There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it... with you."
- Neil Cavuto
(Related: Day, Evil, Nothing, Wrong)
"Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong."
- Lord Edward Cecil
(Related: Men, Agreement, Wrong)
"Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it."
- Orlando Cepeda
(Related: Trust, People, Fight, Wrong)
"When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it."
- Orlando Cepeda
(Related: People, Wrong)
"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Conversation, Right, Wrong)
"It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people."
- Claude Chabrol
(Related: People, Actors, Habits, Wrong)
"I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment."
- Charlie Chaplin
(Related: Life, Right, Wrong)
"Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else."
- Chevy Chase
(Related: Kids, Kissing, Romantic, Wrong)
"So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?"
- Dennis Chavez
(Related: Practice, President, Wrong)
"It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong."
- John Cheever
(Related: Nothing, Summer, Wrong)
"A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues."
- Dick Cheney
(Related: Being, Debate, Defense, Talk, Wrong, Years)
"Early numbers are always wrong."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Numbers, Wrong)
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones."
- Cher
(Related: Time, Man, Right, Wrong)
"How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared."
- Caryl Chessman
(Related: Facts, Light, Man, Police, Wrong)
"'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'"
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Mother, Country, Right, Saying, Wrong)
"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Chastity, Wrong)
"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: American, Americans, Ideals, Nothing, Right, Wrong)
"An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Adventure)
"A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Apology, Hurt, Insult, Party, Want)
"A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Wrong)
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Adventure)
"It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means."
- Lydia M. Child
(Related: Mistake, Evil, Fight, Right, Spiritual, Wickedness, Wrong)
"The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."
- Lydia M. Child
(Related: Life, Lie, Cure, Humanity, Vitality, Word, Wrongs)
"And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Government, Life, Money, People, Country, State, Taxes, Wrong)
"No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong."
- John Chrysostom
(Related: Harm, Man, Wrong)
"I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls."
- Anatoly Chubais
(Related: Change, Wrong)
"The best things carried to excess are wrong."
- Charles Churchill
(Related: Excess, Wrong)
"Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."
- John Ciardi
(Related: Moderation, Nothing, Wrong)
"I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere."
- Madonna Ciccone
(Related: Growing up, Wrong)
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
- Arthur C. Clarke
(Related: Elderly, Right, states, Wrong)
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
- Arthur C. Clarke
(Related: Elderly, Right, Wrong)
"These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong."
- Powell Clayton
(Related: Men, Wrong)
"There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness."
- Eldridge Cleaver
(Related: People, Greatness, Calamity, Honor, Injustice, Loss, Nation, Safety, Self, Wrong)
"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."
- William Kingdon Clifford
(Related: Society, Habit, Danger, Testing, Wrong)
"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
- William Kingdon Clifford
(Related: Wrong)
"When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that."
- William Kingdon Clifford
(Related: Action, Failure, Evil, Right, Wrong)
"If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest."
- William Kingdon Clifford
(Related: Money, Harm, Help, Loss, Man, May, Possession, Wrong)
"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
- William Kingdon Clifford
(Related: Wrong)
"The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art."
- Montgomery Clift
(Related: Art, Nature, Actor, Shakespeare, Wrong)
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America."
- William J. Clinton
(Related: America, Nothing, Right, Wrong)
"I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever."
- William J. Clinton
(Related: Life, Wife, America, Authority, Right, Sense, Wrong)
"The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'"
- George Clooney
(Related: Day, Internet, Night, Right, Trying, Wrong)
"But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons."
- Jonathan Coe
(Related: Time, Books, Wrong)
"There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?"
- Ethan Coen
(Related: Music, Right, Song, Wrong)
"I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign."
- Steven Cojocaru
(Related: Life, Blood, First, Pressure, Wrong)
"There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell."
- Stephen Colbert
(Related: Being, Friends, Gay, Hell, Nothing, Wrong)
"To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!"
- Dabney Coleman
(Related: Truth, Career, Wrong)
"But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't."
- Dabney Coleman
(Related: Funny, Movies, Thought, Right, Wrong)
"When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry."
- William Collins
(Related: Work, Writer, Wrong)
"If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way."
- Barry Commoner
(Related: End, Light, Wrong)
"If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?"
- Confucius
(Related: Heart, Fear, Nothing, Worry, Wrong)
"To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short."
- Confucius
(Related: Wrong)
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
- Confucius
(Related: Nothing)
"There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Government, People, Scotland, Wrong, Years)
"I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man."
- Sean Connery
(Related: Man, Woman, Wrong)
"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."
- Charles Horton Cooley
(Related: Government, Churches, Freedom, Wrong)
"I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window."
- Coolio
(Related: Driving, Smoking, Wrong)
"I don't want to get in a big, long discussion about right and wrong, but our company has been working on the issue of underage drinking and alcohol abuse for a long time. I've been outspoken about it."
- Pete Coors
(Related: Time, Abuse, Alcohol, Company, Drinking, Right, Want, Wrong)
"If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong."
- Aaron Copland
(Related: Music, Literary, Man, Will, Words, Wrong)
"If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear."
- Billy Corgan
(Related: Fear, Wrong)
"In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else."
- Billy Corgan
(Related: Beginning, Want, Wrong)
"Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another."
- Jon Corzine
(Related: Legal, Care, Deeds, Genocide, Obligation, Right, Sense, Words, Wrong)
"I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong."
- Elvis Costello
(Related: Past, Wrong)
"People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it."
- Noel Coward
(Related: People, Opera, Wrong)
"His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right."
- Abraham Cowley
(Related: Faith, Life, Right, Wrong)
"I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest."
- Alan Cox
(Related: People, Forget, Rest, Will, Wrong)
"You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else."
- Nikki Cox
(Related: Fame, Famous, Trade, Want, Wrong)
"I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway."
- Wayne Coyne
(Related: Work, Sound, Want, Wrong)
"We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong."
- Larry Craig
(Related: Government, Power, Right, Wrong)
"We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must."
- Jim Cramer
(Related: Conviction, Direction, Wrong)
"I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is."
- Jim Cramer
(Related: Strength, Right, Wrong)
"One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution."
- Adrian Cronauer
(Related: Constitution, Law, Nothing, School, Wrong)
"If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government."
- George Crook
(Related: Faith, Government, Nature, Will, Wrong)
"Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not."
- Phil Crosby
(Related: Decision, Learning, Wrong)
"Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film."
- Alan Cumming
(Related: People, Film, Wrong)
"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: First, Woman, Wrong)
"A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much."
- Chuck D.
(Related: Love, Rap, Trying, Wrong)
"What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?"
- Richard J. Daley
(Related: Life, People, Office, Public, Trying, Word, Wrong)
"We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer."
- Mitch Daniels
(Related: Purpose, Freedom, Public, Wrong)
"I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't side with. I think that's been the problem."
- Glenn Danzig
(Related: People, America, Party, Wrong)
"Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!"
- Bobby Darin
(Related: Death, Heart, May, Nothing, Order, Wrong)
"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever."
- Clarence Darrow
(Related: Man, Will, World, Wrongs)
"History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history."
- Clarence Darrow
(Related: History, Wrong)
"If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong."
- Clarence Darrow
(Related: America, Man, Wrong)
"I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more."
- Dave Davies
(Related: Money, Religion, Politics, Control, Want, Weakness, Wrong)
"One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun."
- Elmer Davis
(Related: America, Authority, Sun, Wrong)
"I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'"
- Geena Davis
(Related: Wrong)
"I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny."
- Jonathan Davis
(Related: Funny, Reading, Tongue, Wrong)
"One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all."
- Richard Dawkins
(Related: Religion, Answers, Wrong)
"Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong."
- Stockwell Day
(Related: History, Time, Liberals, Right, Wrong)
"The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong."
- Howard Dean
(Related: War, Idea, Wrong)
"Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time."
- Howard Dean
(Related: Time, War, Day, Wrong)
"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong."
- Eugene V. Debs
(Related: History, Majority, Principles, Wrong)
"Our country right or wrong."
- Stephen Decatur
(Related: Country, Right, Wrong)
"Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay."
- Morris Dees
(Related: Work, People, Being, Corporations, Day, Wrong)
"Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Fear, Will, Wrong)
"Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong."
- Democritus
(Related: Desire, Wrong)
"The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged."
- Democritus
(Related: Man)
"I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong."
- Morarji Desai
(Related: Intelligence, Animals, Body, Man, Right, Want, Wrong)
"I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else."
- Ted Dexter
(Related: Loss, May, Wrong)
"Some people have active imaginations, but they don't know me and they're wrong if they think they do."
- Yamila Diaz
(Related: People, Wrong)
"Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic."
- Andy Dick
(Related: Time, People, Christian, Wrong)
"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."
- James Dickey
(Related: Fire, Wrong)
"They taught me different was wrong."
- Ani DiFranco
(Related: Wrong)
"Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time."
- Ani DiFranco
(Related: Love, Time, Wrong)
"There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty."
- Trent Dilfer
(Related: Nothing, Wrong)
"Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong."
- Jonathan Dimbleby
(Related: News, Wrong)
"Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved."
- Walt Disney
(Related: Thinking, Wrong)
"He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Idea, Ignorance, Wrong)
"Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Decision, Rights, Practice, Wrong)
"Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong."
- Thomas Dolby
(Related: First, Wrong)
"Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all."
- Bob Dole
(Related: People, America, Thinking, Wonder, Wrong)
"I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Possibilities, Wrong)
"When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?"
- Phil Donahue
(Related: God, Children, Name, Wrong, Years)
"If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing."
- David Douglass
(Related: Facts, Wrong)
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."
- Frederick Douglass
(Related: People, Injustice, Measure, Will, Wrong)
"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."
- Frederick Douglass
(Related: Free speech, Rights, Wrong)
"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
(Related: Knowledge, First, Wrong)
"Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong."
- John Dryden
(Related: Forgiveness, Wrong)
"In my opinion the prevailing systems of education are all wrong, from the first stage to the last stage."
- William Duane
(Related: Education, First, Opinion, Wrong)
"We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!"
- Al Dubin
(Related: Money, Depression, Man, Old)
"I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me."
- Patty Duke
(Related: Age, Wrong)
"Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong."
- John Foster Dulles
(Related: Thought, Decision, Right, Wrong, Years)
"I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged."
- Faye Dunaway
(Related: Wrong)
"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."
- Lawrence Durrell
(Related: History, Living, Repetition, Wrong)
"In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect."
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
(Related: Society, Effect, Piety, Wrong)
"There was nothing wrong with shouting at God."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: God, Nothing, Wrong)
"The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: End, World, Wrong)
"There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively."
- Wayne Dyer
(Related: Anger, Nothing, Wrong)
"Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so."
- Gregg Easterbrook
(Related: People, Thoughts, Harm, Now, Risk, Saying, Wrong)
"I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong."
- Bernie Ebbers
(Related: Being, Wrong)
"You lose some, you win some. Nothing wrong with that at all."
- Stefan Edberg
(Related: Nothing, Wrong)
"Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart."
- Adrian Edmondson
(Related: Comedians, Wrong)
"I did not do anything wrong as a governor, even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that."
- Edwin Edwards
(Related: Wrong)
"I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I'll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment."
- John Edwards
(Related: Faith, War, Judgment, Vote, Wrong)
"In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!"
- Zac Efron
(Related: Basketball, Day, Wrong)
"Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong."
- Robert. L. Ehrlich
(Related: Leadership, Right, Trying, Wrong)
"A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant."
- Manfred Eigen
(Related: Being, May, Right, Theory, Wrong)
"Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: People, Character, Intellect)
"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Home, Washington, Wrong)
"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Love, Faith, Intelligence, America, Cure, Energy, Freedom, Nothing, Wrong)
"The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt."
- Larry Elder
(Related: War, People, Drugs, Wrong)
"The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason."
- T. S. Eliot
(Related: Deed, Reason, Right, Temptation, Wrong)
"I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good."
- Shannon Elizabeth
(Related: Wrong)
"I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight."
- Harlan Ellison
(Related: Love, Being, Hate, Wrong)
"There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Now, Saying, Wrong)
"I'm not trying to find another thing that's wrong with me, but I'm such a nice person, and I have a couple of drinks and I'm really good fun and then I'm really not fun."
- Tracey Emin
(Related: Drinks, Fun, Trying, Wrong)
"With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far."
- John Entwistle
(Related: End, Wrong)
"If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother."
- Epictetus
(Related: Brother, Wrong, Wrongs)
"By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate."
- Joseph Epstein
(Related: Confidence, Right, Wrong)
"There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also."
- Melissa Etheridge
(Related: Hope, Courtesy, Will, Wrong)
"Love is never wrong."
- Melissa Etheridge
(Related: Love, Wrong)
"I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it."
- Kevin Eubanks
(Related: Life, Fight, Wrong)
"It's wrong to kill."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Wrong)
"Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong."
- Charles Evers
(Related: Time, Leader, Country, Wrong)
"You know, I can't remember the last movie I walked out of. If I pay, I'll see it through. I can't be halfway through a movie and think that I know everything that's going to happen, because I hope that I'm wrong."
- Bobby Farrelly
(Related: Hope, Wrong)
"I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!"
- W. Mark Felt
"Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair."
- Freddy Fender
(Related: Love)
"If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics."
- Edna Ferber
(Related: Politics, Women, American, Wrong)
"An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic."
- Lion Feuchtwanger
(Related: Action, Logic, Right, Wrong)
"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
- Richard P. Feynman
(Related: Theory, Wrong)
"It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end."
- Leslie Fiedler
(Related: End, Wrong)
"Right or wrong, the customer is always right."
- Marshall Field
(Related: Customer, Right, Wrong)
"That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Sports, Baseball, Harm, Scandal, Wrong)
"It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money."
- W. C. Fields
(Related: Money, Wrong)
"Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children."
- Bob Filner
(Related: Food, Children, Congress, Direction, Wrong)
"Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account."
- Carly Fiorina
(Related: Government, Now, Priorities, Right, Wonder, Wrong)
"Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real."
- Colin Firth
(Related: People, Choices, Comedy, Errors, Wrong)
"One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost."
- Terence Fisher
(Related: Effect, Wrong)
"I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better."
- Jon Fishman
(Related: Choice, Wrong)
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
- Ella Fitzgerald
(Related: Love, Inspiration, Trying, Want, Wrong)
"Eating people is wrong."
- Michael Flanders
(Related: People, Eating, Wrong)
"Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right."
- Louise Fletcher
(Related: Life, Time, Feelings, Care, Fact, Joy, Killing, Right, Wrong)
"So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!"
- Calista Flockhart
(Related: Age, Business, People, Time, Lying, Now, Old, Wrong)
"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Charity, Crime, Cure, Poverty, Punishment, Wrong)
"Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians."
- Lita Ford
(Related: Women, Musicians, Wrong)
"I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers."
- Luke Ford
(Related: College, Fire, Teachers, Wrong)
"To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Men, Art, Right, Wrong)
"Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time."
- Lukas Foss
(Related: Time, Work, Artists, Nothing, Trying, Wrong)
"Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century."
- Alan Dean Foster
(Related: Time, Travel, World, Writing, Wrong)
"Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be."
- Norman Foster
(Related: Control, Practice, Projects, Sharing, Word, Wrong)
"The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house."
- Jeff Foxworthy
(Related: Job, Wrong)
"You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more."
- Jeff Foxworthy
(Related: Moon, Office, Party, Wrong)
"My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong."
- A. J. Foyt
(Related: Dad, People, Successful, Luck, Race, Running, Saying, Wrong)
"If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong."
- Al Franken
(Related: Day, Effect, Liberals, Soldiers, Troops, Wrong)
"Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Answers, Question, Wrong)
"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."
- Viktor E. Frankl
(Related: Time, First, Living)
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Wrong)
"You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong."
- Michael Frayn
(Related: Impression, Being, Nothing, Right, Wrong)
"The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out."
- Louis Freeh
(Related: Consulting, Direction, Dying, Leading, President, Waiting, Wrong)
"If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me."
- Anna Freud
(Related: Day, Wrong)
"I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong."
- Lucian Freud
(Related: Art, End, Painting, Wrong)
"The lessons that it teaches are fundamentally the lessons that all great battles teach That even the most carefully prepared plans often go wrong. That lucky breaks are very important."
- Otto Friedrich
(Related: Wrong)
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Homesickness, Sense, Wrong)
"It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons."
- Sadie Frost
(Related: Children, Wrong)
"It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong."
- Stephen Fry
(Related: Idea, Body, Sexuality, Wrong)
"The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends."
- J. William Fulbright
(Related: Power, Cause, Difficulties, Excess, Feeling, Results, Wrong)
"When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
(Related: Beauty, Solution, Wrong)
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
(Related: Technology, Humanity, Right, Wrong)
"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Facts, Right, Will, Wrong)
"'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Wrong)
"There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
(Related: Truth, Majority, Wrong)
"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
(Related: Life, Comfort, Wrong)
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
(Related: Majority, Right, Wrong)
"In economics, the majority is always wrong."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
(Related: Economics, Majority, Wrong)
"I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers."
- Albert Gallatin
(Related: Belief, Public, Wrong)
"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Evil, Will, Wrong)
"And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future?"
- Jeff Gannon
(Related: People, Ability, Future, Past, Will, Wrong)
"I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong."
- Greta Garbo
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously."
- Jerry Garcia
(Related: Society, Quality, Character, Effort, Wrongs)
"Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong."
- Ava Gardner
(Related: Mistake, People, Thinking, Wrong)
"Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong."
- Howard Gardner
(Related: Problems, Software, Wrong, Years)
"I love it. When they stop imitating me then I'll start wondering where I'm going wrong. Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new."
- Erroll Garner
(Related: Love, Day, Play, Wrong)
"We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as."
- Helen Garner
(Related: Government, Women, Hope, Being, Wrong)
"I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make."
- Leif Garrett
(Related: Power, Bed, Right, Sleep, Wrong)
"Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?"
- William Lloyd Garrison
(Related: Opinion, Popular, Right, Wrong)
"How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!"
- Elizabeth Gaskell
(Related: Evil)
"When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time."
- Charles de Gaulle
(Related: Time, Right, Wrong)
"A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me."
- Boy George
(Related: Learning, Relationships, Sexuality, Therapy, Wrong, Years)
"Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept."
- Gil Gerard
(Related: Character, Play, Thinking, Wrong)
"I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust."
- Geronimo
(Related: Trust, Honor)
"The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians."
- Geronimo
(Related: Government, Soldiers)
"Five wives can't all be wrong."
- Paul Getty
(Related: Wives, Wrong)
"It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody."
- Boutros Boutros Ghali
(Related: Father, Mistake, Acting, France, Leaders, President, Wrong, Years)
"If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script."
- Mel Gibson
(Related: Wrong)
"The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it."
- Vince Gill
(Related: Funny, Time, People, Majority, Perceptions, Song, Want, Wrong)
"My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results."
- Newt Gingrich
(Related: Future, President, Results, Right, Will, Wrong)
"We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something."
- Newt Gingrich
(Related: May, Wrong)
"Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right."
- William E. Gladstone
(Related: Nothing, Right, Wrong)
"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."
- William E. Gladstone
(Related: Government, People, Duty, Right, Wrong)
"Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong."
- William E. Gladstone
(Related: Laws, Right, Wrong)
"I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge."
- William Glasser
(Related: Education, Knowledge, Wrong)
"I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn't control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Car, Experience, Control, Wrong)
"Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism."
- Barry Goldwater
(Related: Equality, Time, Conformity, Fathers, First, Founding, Liberty)
"I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong."
- Samuel Goldwyn
(Related: May, Right, Wrong)
"There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish."
- Samuel Gompers
(Related: Order, Right, Wrong)
"Every day it seems like something happens to assure me I'm in the right place, and that doing anything else would be wrong. I feel so incredibly blessed."
- Lucas Grabeel
(Related: Day, Right, Wrong)
"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side."
- Baltasar Gracian
(Related: Argument, Right, Wrong)
"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."
- Baltasar Gracian
(Related: Temper, Will, Wrong)
"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men."
- Billy Graham
(Related: Men, Nothing, Wrong)
"It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!"
- Kenneth Grahame
(Related: Time, Wrong)
"Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment."
- Hugh Grant
(Related: Environment, Fancy, Film, Office, Wrong)
"Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time."
- Robert Graves
(Related: Time, Money, Idea, Poets, Public, Talking, Word, Writing, Wrong)
"My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong."
- Colin Greenwood
(Related: Hate, Wrong)
"We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class."
- Dick Gregory
(Related: Thought, American, Class, First, Wrong)
"I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again."
- Tony Greig
(Related: People, Today, Wrong)
"It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong."
- John Grierson
(Related: Act, Opinion, Opinions, Right, Wrong)
"What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Work, People, Wrong)
"People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice."
- Melanie Griffith
(Related: Work, People, Acting, Nothing, Voice, Wrong)
"We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation."
- Raul Grijalva
(Related: People, Values, Victory, Country, Defeat, Nation, Wrong)
"I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?"
- Angelina Grimke
(Related: Children, Friends, Horror, Questions, Slavery, Wrong)
"Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education."
- Angelina Grimke
(Related: Education, Women, Sympathy, Inferiority, Liberal, Man, Wrong)
"Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored."
- Alfred Whitney Griswold
(Related: May, Order, Wrong)
"There are no right answers to wrong questions."
- Ursula K. Le Guin
(Related: Answers, Questions, Right, Wrong)
"My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call."
- Cathy Guisewite
(Related: Mother, Feelings, Eating, Kitchen, Sharing, Waiting, Writing, Wrong)
"All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right."
- Cathy Guisewite
(Related: Thought, Children, Now, Parents, Right, Wrong)
"If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed."
- David Hackworth
(Related: Policy, Obligation, Sound)
"If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession."
- Uta Hagen
(Related: Actor, Existence, Profession, Want, Wrong)
"Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in."
- Jessica Hahn
(Related: God, Body, Mind, Wrong)
"We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare."
- Alexander Haig
(Related: Afghanistan, Country, Force, Now, Problems, World, Wrong, Years)
"If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring."
- David Halberstam
(Related: Old, Sin, World, Wrong)
"When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry."
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
(Related: Man, Wrong)
"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way."
- Edward F. Halifax
(Related: Hope, Company, Wrong)
"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."
- Edward Hall
(Related: Trying, Wrong)
"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"
- Nhat Hanh
(Related: People, Negative, Positive, Wrong)
"The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never."
- Victor Davis Hanson
(Related: American, Fact, Freedom, Help, Idealism, Will, Wrong)
"Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed."
- Garrett Hardin
(Related: Education, Knowledge, Generations, Wrong)
"Men have two ways of righting their wrongs, by force and by the ballot. Both are denied to women, one by nature, the other by man."
- Ida A. Harper
(Related: Men, Nature, Women, Force, Man, Wrongs)
"We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender."
- W. Averell Harriman
(Related: Fight, Surrender, Wrong)
"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong"."
- Sydney J. Harris
(Related: Love, Hate, World)
"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it."
- Rex Harrison
(Related: Idea, Feeling, Wrong)
"But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment."
- Debbie Harry
(Related: Being, Humanity, Judgment, Right, Sense, Treatment, Wrong)
"Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts."
- Ian Hart
(Related: Men, People, Being, Hair, Nothing, Reality, Wrong, Youth)
"If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will."
- Paul Harvey
(Related: Chance, Will, Wrong)
"If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will."
- Will Harvey
(Related: Chance, Will, Wrong)
"Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong."
- Doc Hastings
(Related: Defeat, May, Terrorism, Wrong)
"I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have."
- Steven Hatfill
(Related: Letters, Nothing, Wrong)
"My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad."
- Bob Hawke
(Related: Home, War, Danger, Participation, Result, Security, Wrong)
"We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album."
- Dan Hawkins
(Related: Garden, Play, Will, Wrong)
"If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong."
- Jeff Hawkins
(Related: History, Obstacles, Understanding, World, Wrong)
"Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam."
- Tom Hayden
(Related: Vietnam, Wrong)
"I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television."
- Sean Hayes
(Related: Thought, Christian, Beginning, First, Religious, Saying, Television, Woman, Wrong)
"The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Wisdom, Heart, Knowledge, Right, Wrong)
"Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!"
- Mitch Hedberg
(Related: Wrong)
"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights."
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Related: Rights, World, Wrong)
"If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out."
- Levon Helm
(Related: Music, Help, Wrong)
"If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work."
- Ernest Hemingway
(Related: Success, Work, Popular, Wrong)
"Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it."
- Ernest Hemingway
(Related: Time, Doubt, Right, Wrong)
"Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message."
- John Hench
(Related: Public, Wrong)
"At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back."
- Thierry Henry
(Related: Money, Beginning, Wrong)
"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."
- Audrey Hepburn
(Related: Being, Day, Girls, Kissing, Miracles, Tomorrow, Wrong)
"All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it."
- Michael Herr
(Related: People, Forget, Vietnam, Wrong)
"They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A."
- Carl Hiaasen
(Related: Right, Sense, Wrong)
"Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward."
- John Hickenlooper
(Related: Day, Scandal, Will, Wrong)
"In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions."
- Elias Hicks
(Related: Truth, Inventions, Man, Reading, Wrong)
"But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do."
- Jim Hightower
(Related: Mother, Right, Wrongs)
"You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending."
- Damon Hill
(Related: Want, Wrong)
"Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Act, Doubt, Law, Will, Wrong)
"We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"
- James Hillman
(Related: People, Poor, Will, Wrong)
"I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person."
- James Hillman
(Related: Change, Ideas, American, Wrong)
"Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society."
- James Hillman
(Related: Society, Theory, Trouble, Wrong)
"I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here."
- S. E. Hinton
(Related: Friends, Nothing, Wrong)
"They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it."
- Ian Hislop
(Related: People, May, Will, Wrong)
"Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong."
- Adolf Hitler
(Related: Success, Right, Wrong)
"It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans."
- Eric Hobsbawm
(Related: Patriotism, American, Americans, Right, Wrong)
"I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it."
- David Hobson
(Related: Garden, Wrong)
"I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them."
- Jimmy Hoffa
(Related: Being, Faults, May, Wrong)
"I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil."
- Dustin Hoffman
(Related: Power, War, Money, May, Oil, Wrong)
"I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got."
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
(Related: Business, Acting, Community, Now, Wrong)
"To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong."
- Hulk Hogan
(Related: Will, Wrong)
"You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night."
- Paul Hogan
(Related: Thought, People, Career, Night, Word, Wrong)
"Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons."
- Anthony Holden
(Related: Change, People, Opinion, Public, Public opinion, Wrong)
"My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation."
- Harri Holkeri
(Related: People, Cooperation, Fact, Nothing, Opinion, Right, Wrong)
"Apology is only egotism wrong side out."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Related: Apology, Egotism, Wrong)
"But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it."
- Peter Hook
(Related: Mistake, Wrong)
"Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong."
- John Jay Hooker
(Related: Government, Internet, Media, Right, Talk, Wrong)
"For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?"
- Bell Hooks
(Related: Forgiveness, Time, People, Compassion, Humanity)
"No matter where you're going it's the wrong place."
- Tobe Hooper
(Related: Wrong)
"The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong."
- Tom Hooper
(Related: Life, Work, Actor, Variety, Wrong)
"Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong."
- Bob Hope
(Related: Crime, Wrong)
"My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong."
- Mark Hoppus
(Related: Morality, Difference, Growing up, Parents, Pretty, Right, Wrong)
"A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong."
- Horace
(Related: Purpose, Mankind, Pride, Right, Vices, Wrong)
"Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong."
- Trevor Horn
(Related: Life, Wrong)
"Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention."
- Douglas Horton
(Related: Attention, Chance, Desperation, Wrong)
"It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all."
- Laurence Housman
(Related: Books, Reform, Right, World, Wrong)
"Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation."
- Sam Houston
(Related: Policy, Glory, Nation, Right, Wrong)
"Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy."
- Edgar Watson Howe
(Related: Wrongs)
"Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Men, Women, Idea, Rights, Wrongs)
"God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: Nature, God, Wrong)
"Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Forgiveness, Man, Treatment)
"As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs."
- Kurt Huber
(Related: Destiny, Duty, Obvious, Right, Wrongs)
"How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do."
- Mike Huckabee
(Related: Leaders, Wrong)
"Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer."
- Charles Brenton Huggins
(Related: Nature, Wrong)
"I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them."
- Rex Hunt
(Related: People, Knowledge, Existence, Wrong)
"I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight."
- Douglas Hurd
(Related: Government, War, Democracy, Fight, May, Needs, Questions, Support, Wrong)
"There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War."
- Douglas Hurd
(Related: War, Agreement, First, Rights, Today, World, World war, Wrongs)
"If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong."
- John Hurt
(Related: Change, Wrong)
"I have been guilty of wrong thinking."
- Anne Hutchinson
(Related: Thinking, Wrong)
"There would have to be something wrong with someone who could throw out a child's first Valentine card saying, I love you, Mommy."
- Ginger Hutton
(Related: Love, First, Saying, Wrong)
"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Travel, Countries, Wrong)
"The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite."
- Thomas Huxley
(Related: Infinite, Possibilities, Right, Wrong)
"The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me."
- Thomas Huxley
(Related: Care, Freedom, Right, Will, Wrong)
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all."
- Hypatia
(Related: Right)
"The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right."
- Henrik Ibsen
(Related: Majority, Minority, Right, Wrong)
"A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong."
- Henrik Ibsen
(Related: Majority, May, Minority, Right, Wrong)
"Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again."
- Billy Idol
(Related: Wrong)
"The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this."
- Daniel Inouye
(Related: Leadership, Hope, Iraq, Months, President, Speech, Will, Wrong, Years)
"A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Deed, Ego, Man, May, Understanding, Wrong)
"I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system."
- Johnny Isakson
(Related: Money, Mother, Night, Opposition, President, Reform, Saying, Wrong)
"I think it's awful that the state of Oklahoma a couple of years ago passed this law to give the same tuition to illegals as they do to people who are residents of Oklahoma. I think it's wrong."
- Ernest Istook
(Related: People, Law, State, Wrong, Years)
"Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it."
- Alan Jackson
(Related: Singing, Songs, Words, Wrong)
"I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong."
- Jermaine Jackson
(Related: Religion, Peace, Islam, America, Being, Wrong)
"When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel."
- LaToya Jackson
(Related: Love, People, World, Wrong)
"When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Cure, Feeling, Wrong)
"George W. Bush will have to come to the UN and admit that he was wrong."
- Bianca Jagger
(Related: Will, Wrong)
"I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral."
- Bianca Jagger
(Related: War, Law, Nation, states, United, Wrong)
"The killing of innocent people is always wrong."
- Bianca Jagger
(Related: People, Killing, Wrong)
"If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong."
- Tom Jaine
(Related: Art, Diet, Cooking, Wrong)
"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are."
- Clive James
(Related: Machines, Wrong)
"The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way."
- William James
(Related: Hell, Theology, World, Wrong)
"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
- William James
(Related: Wrong)
"I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does."
- Jim Jarmusch
(Related: Love, Character, Focus, Mistakes, Nothing, Wrong)
"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions."
- Antony Jay
(Related: Answers, Mind, Questions, Wrong)
"I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time."
- Wyclef Jean
(Related: Love, Time, People, Character, Want, Wrong)
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: War, Wrong)
"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Truth, Error, Ignorance, Nothing, Wrong)
"It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Ideas, Nothing, Wrong)
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Attitude, Goal, Earth, Help, Man, Nothing, Right, Wrong)
"The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree."
- Bruce Jenner
(Related: Time, Truth, People, Numbers, Wrong)
"If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong."
- Peter Jennings
(Related: May, News, Wrong)
"The weather is like the government, always in the wrong."
- Jerome K. Jerome
(Related: Government, Weather, Wrong)
"God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women."
- Sarah Orne Jewett
(Related: Men, Women, Talent, God, Right, Wrong)
"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?"
- Steve Jobs
(Related: Being, Wrong)
"If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going."
- Roland Joffe
(Related: Idea, Eating, Football, Nothing, Wrong)
"Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong."
- Donald Johanson
(Related: Being, Scientists, Wrong)
"There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats."
- Elton John
(Related: Sex, People, Bed, Nothing, Wrong)
"Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong."
- Lara St. John
(Related: Accident, Present, Wrong)
"We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing."
- Eddie Bernice Johnson
(Related: Losing, Right, Wrong)
"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: Benefits, Cause, Legislation, Light, Will, Wrongs)
"A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that."
- Nancy Johnson
(Related: Nothing, Wrong)
"If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming."
- Phillip E. Johnson
(Related: Power, Science, Truth, Right, Wrong)
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Trust, Wrong)
"Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer."
- Craig Johnston
(Related: Now, Wrong)
"I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble."
- Angelina Jolie
(Related: Trust, Being, Choice, Fun, Trouble, Want, Wrong)
"Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!"
- Angelina Jolie
(Related: God, Self, Struggle, Wrong)
"I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Play, Wrong)
"I know a lot of people didn't understand why I came back, and people are still going to say it was stupid and it was the wrong decision. But I'm happy."
- Cobi Jones
(Related: People, Decision, Wrong)
"Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention."
- E. Stanley Jones
(Related: Intelligence, Mistake, Action, Intention, Intentions, May, Sin, Wrong)
"I abide where there is a fight against wrong."
- Mary Harris Jones
(Related: Fight, Wrong)
"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag."
- Mary Harris Jones
(Related: Protection, Wrongs)
"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong."
- Mother Jones
(Related: Fight, Wrong)
"I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do."
- Mother Jones
(Related: Career, Labor, Wrongs)
"Singularity shows something wrong in the mind."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Mind, Wrong)
"Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are."
- Erica Jong
(Related: People, Idea, Fame, Wrong)
"You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older."
- Leila Josefowicz
(Related: Age, Music, Want, Wrong)
"Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?"
- Mike Judge
(Related: Character, Honor, Wrong)
"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
- Carl Jung
(Related: Mind, Nonsense, Right, Wrong)
"It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake."
- Junius
(Related: Design, Mistake, Right, Wrong)
"And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right."
- Carol Kane
(Related: Experience, Knowledge, Film, First, Right, Wrong)
"Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is."
- Marcy Kaptur
(Related: Money, People, Country, Direction, Nation, Wonder, Wrong)
"As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?"
- Marcy Kaptur
(Related: Evening, Help, Killing, Television, Wrong)
"Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life."
- Walter Kaufmann
(Related: Life, Hinduism, Fate, Punishment, Wrongs)
"Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here."
- David Kay
(Related: Saying, Wrong)
"The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to figure out what was there. And that's what I call fundamental fault analysis."
- David Kay
(Related: Fact, Fault, Understanding, Wrong)
"There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don't have free and open societies."
- David Kay
(Related: Being, Countries, Open, Reason, Wrong)
"The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing."
- David Kay
(Related: Intelligence, Judgment, Service, Wrong)
"And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation."
- David Kay
(Related: Explanations, Wrong)
"That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong."
- Kevin Keegan
(Related: Decision, Wrong)
"If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong."
- Christine Keeler
(Related: History, Books, Now, Will, Wrong)
"A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it."
- Garrison Keillor
(Related: Coffee, Nothing, Thinking, Wrong)
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
- Helen Keller
(Related: Happiness, Idea, Purpose, Fidelity, Self, Wrong)
"I find nothing wrong with the naked body."
- Moira Kelly
(Related: Body, Nothing, Wrong)
"In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing."
- Patsy Kelly
(Related: Business, Nothing, Right, Wrong, Years)
"Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong."
- Thomas Kempis
(Related: Mind, Sight, Wrong)
"It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late."
- Marilyn Moats Kennedy
(Related: Being, Right, Risk, Wrong)
"Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world."
- Patrick J. Kennedy
(Related: Leadership, Genocide, Resolution, Rest, Turkey, World, Wrong)
"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong."
- Charles Kettering
(Related: Wrong)
"There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out."
- John Maynard Keynes
(Related: Being, Harm, Wrong)
"The belief in some being who can be the judge of all human matters is a very comfortable one - all wrongs will be righted and all rights will be rewarded."
- Eli Khamarov
(Related: Belief, Being, Rights, Will, Wrongs)
"I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me."
- Margot Kidder
(Related: Work, Wrong)
"I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children."
- Nicole Kidman
(Related: Mother, Sister, Daughter, Children, Woman, World, Wrong)
"Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds."
- Jewel Kilcher
(Related: Love, Fun, Nothing, Right, Wrong)
"Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people."
- Coretta Scott King
(Related: People, Wrong)
"I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration is good for the country. But the symbolism of it at ground zero, within two blocks or three blocks, I believe is wrong."
- Peter King
(Related: God, People, Inspiration, Churches, Country, Spiritual, Support, Wrong)
"Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong."
- Richard King
(Related: Ideas, Censorship, Words, Wrong)
"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Conservative, Radical, Right, Wrong)
"Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth."
- Charles Kingsley
(Related: Age, Romance, Chivalry, Earth, Past, Spirit, Wrong)
"There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better."
- David Knopfler
(Related: Nothing, Wrong)
"I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood."
- Beyonce Knowles
(Related: Life, Houston, School, Wrong)
"When all are wrong, everyone is right."
- Edward Koch
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone."
- Boris Kodjoe
(Related: Being, Culture, Man, Woman, Wrong)
"One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong."
- Dean Koontz
(Related: Change, Mind, Will, Wrong)
"Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess."
- Viktor Korchnoi
(Related: Time, Chess, Wrong)
"If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up."
- Fred Korematsu
(Related: Feeling, Wrong)
"Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment."
- Jerzy Kosinski
(Related: American, Nothing, Punishment, Suffering, Wrong)
"I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed."
- Leo Kottke
(Related: Force, Talk, Talking, Will, Wrong)
"Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him - though fortunately for me! - he hit in the wrong direction."
- Vladimir Kramnik
(Related: Direction, Wrong)
"On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years."
- Judith Krantz
(Related: Heart, May, Wrong, Years)
"I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote."
- Peter Krause
(Related: People, Country, Now, Right, Sense, State, Vote, Wrong)
"As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure."
- Henry Kravis
(Related: Failure, Nothing, Wrong)
"It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong."
- Saul Kripke
(Related: Theories, Theory, Wrong)
"I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight."
- Nicholas D. Kristof
(Related: Wrong)
"Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And I'm going to take the country in an opposite direction than he's taking it."
- Dennis Kucinich
(Related: Government, Strategy, Purpose, Country, Direction, Justice, Wrong)
"The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong."
- Ted Kulongoski
(Related: Policy, Facts, Global warming, Today, Wrong)
"At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil."
- Hans Kung
(Related: Men, Time, Women, Evil, Right, Traditions, Wrong)
"I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong."
- Charles Kuralt
(Related: Society, People, Journalism, Philosophy, Wrong)
"Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs."
- Thomas Kyd
(Related: Death, Life, Eyes, Public, Tears, World, Wrongs)
"I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians."
- Aung San Suu Kyi
(Related: Work, People, Politicians, Wrong)
"One of the comments that we've heard that has really blessed us is people have been driven back to the book of Revelation to prove us wrong only to find that what we said was there."
- Tim LaHaye
(Related: People, Wrong)
"Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!"
- Christine Lahti
(Related: Work, Actor, Famous, News, Wrong)
"It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached."
- Imre Lakatos
(Related: Power, Research, Wrong)
"Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Children, Parents, Wrong)
"I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone."
- Judge Mills Lane
(Related: Wrong)
"Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings."
- Jessica Lange
(Related: Diversity, Hell, Nothing, Religious, Right, Wrong)
"It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans."
- John B. Larson
(Related: Americans, Wrong)
"Before you do anything, you need to know if it's right or wrong."
- Andy Lau
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"If you don't sell, it's not the product that's wrong, it's you."
- Estee Lauder
(Related: Wrong)
"You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean."
- Cyndi Lauper
(Related: English, Ocean, Wrong)
"I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war."
- Avril Lavigne
(Related: War, People, Decisions, Problems, Respect, Wrong)
"London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to."
- Jude Law
(Related: Home, London, Right, Wrong)
"My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Religion, Belief, Being, Blood, Intellect, Wrong)
"There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity."
- Nigella Lawson
(Related: Being, Nothing, Vanity, Wrong)
"The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal."
- Kenneth Lay
(Related: Life, Fact, Wrong)
"Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves."
- Patrick Leahy
(Related: Change, Iraq, President, Results, Vice, Wrong)
"No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well."
- William P. Leahy
(Related: Day, Errors, Light, Physicians, Police, Wrong)
"I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?"
- Denis Leary
(Related: History, Prejudice, President, Wrong)
"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Thought, Right, Wrong)
"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."
- Robert E. Lee
(Related: Friend, Wrong)
"I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall."
- Annie Leibovitz
(Related: Space, Wrong)
"I'm not young. What's wrong with that?"
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Wrong)
"If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball."
- Jack Lemmon
(Related: People, Golf, Wrong)
"The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?"
- John Lennon
(Related: Society, People, Drugs, Living, Wrong)
"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."
- John Lennon
(Related: God, People, Man, Old, Rest, Right, Sky, Wrong)
"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."
- Aldo Leopold
(Related: Beauty, Community, Integrity, Right, Stability, Wrong)
"I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business."
- Matthew Lesko
(Related: Business, Government, Money, People, Answers, Help, Thinking, Wrong)
"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."
- Doris Lessing
"The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong."
- David Letterman
(Related: People, Wrong)
"There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side."
- Oscar Levant
(Related: Wrong)
"As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values."
- Edward Levi
(Related: Wisdom, Time, Action, Values, Law, May, Memory, Opposition, Passion, Wrong)
"I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop."
- Jack Levine
(Related: Wrong)
"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."
- C. S. Lewis
(Related: Progress, Man, Right, Road, Walking, Want, Wrong)
"Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people."
- Joe E. Lewis
(Related: Time, Genius, People, Right, Saying, Wrong)
"The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves."
- John L. Lewis
(Related: Corporate, Rights, Nation, Treatment, Waiting, Workers, Wrongs)
"We have all read tragic stories in our local papers about gun accidents as a result of misuse. As lawmakers we can better promote safety and responsibility by encouraging gun owners to purchase gun safes to store firearms and keep them from falling into the wrong hands."
- Ron Lewis
(Related: Encouraging, Accidents, Responsibility, Result, Safety, Wrong)
"What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong."
- Robert Ley
(Related: Germany, Right, Wrong)
"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
(Related: Experience, Right, Wrong)
"There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media."
- Rush Limbaugh
(Related: Business, Customer, Media, Wrong)
"The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?"
- Rush Limbaugh
(Related: Death, Life, Work, Morality, Compromise, Nothing, President, Speech, Wrong)
"Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?"
- Rush Limbaugh
(Related: Health, Care, Committee, Congress, Country, President, Taxes, Will, Wrong)
"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong."
- Abraham Lincoln
(Related: God, Act, May, Party, Will, Wrong)
"Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong."
- Abraham Lincoln
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
- Abraham Lincoln
(Related: Light, Right, Succeed, Wrong)
"Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties."
- Blanche Lincoln
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I'm wrong about this, I guess I'll become a bum."
- Hal Lindsey
(Related: Christian, Community, Wrong)
"A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul."
- Jesse Livermore
(Related: Soul, Being, Forget, Loss, Wrong)
"There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports."
- Rebecca Lobo
(Related: Sports, Being, Femininity, Nothing, Play, Trying, Wrong)
"You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works."
- Kurt Loder
(Related: Journalism, Law, Right, Wrong)
"If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong."
- Henry Cabot Lodge
(Related: Right, states, United, Wrong)
"I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight."
- Lindsay Lohan
(Related: Age, Drugs, Wrong)
"Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left."
- Bjorn Lomborg
(Related: Arguments, Right, Wrong)
"Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?"
- Bjorn Lomborg
(Related: Direction, Problems, Right, Sense, World, Wrong)
"But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression."
- Bjorn Lomborg
(Related: People, Impression, Being, Information, Wrong)
"We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports."
- Bjorn Lomborg
(Related: Community, Information, Now, Right, Wrong)
"When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things."
- Bjorn Lomborg
(Related: Business, Arguments, Environment, Interest, May, Nothing, Wrong)
"The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive."
- Bjorn Lomborg
(Related: Global warming, Now, Saying, Want, Wrong)
"I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style."
- Julie London
(Related: Project, Style, Voice, Wrong)
"I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice."
- Julie London
(Related: Voice, Wrong)
"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Related: Time, Right, Wrong)
"You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room."
- Jennifer Lopez
(Related: Love, Birthday, Time, Flowers, Romantic, Wrong)
"You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor."
- Lawrence G. Lovasik
(Related: Mistake, May, Right, Wrong)
"Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne."
- James Russell Lowell
(Related: Truth, Wrong)
"What's wrong is that we are not participating to make this the type of government it needs to be."
- Mike Lowry
(Related: Government, Needs, Wrong)
"You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world."
- Joanna Lumley
(Related: People, Beginning, Charity, Word, World, Writing, Wrong)
"It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional."
- Frank Luntz
(Related: Love, Emotion, Nothing, Vacation, Wrong)
"People who think it doesn't matter who owns our auto industry are flat wrong."
- Robert Lutz
(Related: People, Wrong)
"Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years."
- Rose Macaulay
(Related: Act, Conscience, Light, Wrong, Years)
"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."
- Ross MacDonald
(Related: Cure, Nothing, Ocean, Wrong)
"Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive."
- Patrick MacGill
(Related: Men, Motive, Right, Wrong)
"There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong."
- Mary MacLane
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need."
- Anne Sullivan Macy
(Related: Experience, Schools, Wrong)
"Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous."
- Melvin Maddocks
(Related: Wrong)
"Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done."
- James Madison
(Related: Power, Interest, Will, Wrong)
"There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong."
- James Madison
(Related: Interest, Majority, Maxim, Needs, Opinion, Right, Wrong)
"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision."
- Maimonides
(Related: Decision, Indecision, Risk, Terror, Wrong)
"Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that."
- Miriam Makeba
(Related: Truth, People, Now, World, Wrong)
"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it."
- Malcolm X
(Related: Patriotism, Blind, Reality, Wrong)
"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it."
- Malcom X
(Related: Patriotism, Blind, Reality, Wrong)
"I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set."
- John Malkovich
(Related: Father, Measure, Wrong)
"To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand."
- Albert Maltz
(Related: Life, Friend, Right, Wrong)
"Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong."
- James Mansfield
(Related: Decisions, May, Right, Wrong)
"I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it."
- Jayne Mansfield
(Related: Being, Nothing, Wrong)
"If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way."
- Jayne Mansfield
(Related: Punishment, Wrong)
"I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life."
- Joe Mantegna
(Related: Life, Public, Want, Wrong)
"It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline."
- Kamisese Mara
(Related: Family, Faith, Discipline, Difference, Ideals, Law, Principles, Punishment, Religious, Right, Teaching, Wrong)
"There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life."
- Pete Maravich
(Related: Life, Goals, Dedication, Focus, Nothing, Wrong)
"But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong."
- Patrick Marber
(Related: Wrong)
"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Superiority, Difference, Infinite, Mediocrity, Right, Wrong)
"I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother."
- Teena Marie
(Related: Life, Mother, Care, Man, Wrong)
"I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind."
- Ziggy Marley
(Related: Mankind, Smoking, Wrong)
"Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong."
- Don Marquis
(Related: Idea, Wrong)
"Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with."
- Peter Marshall
(Related: Change, Right, Wrong)
"He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief."
- Jose Marti
(Related: Office)
"I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it."
- Demetri Martin
(Related: Birthday, Christmas, Want, Waste, Wrong)
"An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Apology, Dignity, Gentleman, Wrong)
"I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it."
- Cliff Martinez
(Related: Age, Time, Wrong)
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
- Groucho Marx
(Related: Art, Politics, Remedies, Trouble, Wrong)
"I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!"
- Richard Marx
(Related: Love, People, Song, Songs, Wrong)
"I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science."
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
(Related: Science, Acting, Wrong)
"I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things."
- Kurt Masur
(Related: Famous, Mistakes, Wrong)
"But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about you in this business whether they are your agent or your manager or your publicist."
- Heather Matarazzo
(Related: Business, Manager, People, Day, End, Wrong)
"Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name."
- Marlee Matlin
(Related: People, Dumb, Name, Washington, Wrong)
"We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment and deal with what is, that's the real opportunity."
- Kathy Mattea
(Related: Opportunity, Ability, Wrong)
"I'm not just gonna go after the black Jesse Jackson they all want to make fun of, but I know the wrong people are gonna laugh at that. I don't want to play to that crowd. I don't."
- Chris Matthews
(Related: People, Fun, Play, Want, Wrong)
"Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Sentiment, Sentimentality, Wrong)
"Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons."
- Amelie Mauresmo
(Related: Life, Right, Wrong)
"The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong."
- Robert Maxwell
(Related: Children, Difference, Right, Teaching, Wrong)
"We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right."
- Wendell Mayes
(Related: Being, Navy, Right, Wrong)
"If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments."
- John McCarthy
(Related: Attitude, Arguments, Attention, Wrong)
"I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong."
- Karen McCarthy
(Related: Action, Committee, Nothing, Wrong)
"For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs."
- Bill McCartney
(Related: Christian, Church, Brothers, Culture, Past, Sisters, Traditions, Wrongs, Years)
"I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy."
- Norma McCorvey
(Related: Development, Emotions, Office, Pregnancy, Wrong)
"There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion."
- Jim McDermott
(Related: Compassion, Nothing, Wrong)
"It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days."
- Todd McFarlane
(Related: Audiences, Wrong)
"I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on."
- Rose McGowan
(Related: Actors, Choices, Wrong)
"It's innate in me to be a Democrat - a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those anymore. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. That's just the way I feel."
- Tim McGraw
(Related: Right, Saying, Wrong)
"I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place."
- Barry McGuire
(Related: Wrong)
"It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier."
- Ian Mckellen
(Related: Leader, Gay, Reality)
"And now they are getting married, and I'm still single! What's wrong with me?"
- Mark McKinney
(Related: Now, Wrong)
"Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are."
- Julian McMahon
(Related: Laws, Obligation, Wrong)
"I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation."
- Timothy McVeigh
(Related: Government, Argument, Publicity, Right, Thinking, Wrong)
"I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now."
- Peter McWilliams
(Related: Happiness, Success, Causes, Desire, Fact, Nothing, Now, Order, Trouble, Wrong)
"Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong."
- Ken Mehlman
(Related: Winning, African, Republican, Republicans, Today, Trying, Vote, Wrong)
"That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong."
- Lord Melbourne
(Related: Men, Support, Want, Will, Wrong)
"What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong."
- William Lamb Melbourne
(Related: Men, Support, Want, Will, Wrong)
"There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man."
- Herman Melville
(Related: Deep, Help, Man, Want, Wrong)
"If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land."
- Mencius
(Related: Music, Land, Wrong)
"There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Solution, Wrong)
"Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Morality, Act, Right, Theory, Wrong)
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Wrong)
"The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong."
- George Meredith
(Related: Science, Man, Nothing, Wrong)
"We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here."
- Angela Merkel
(Related: Christian, Humanity, Wrong)
"Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing."
- W. S. Merwin
(Related: Poetry, End, Word, Wrong)
"As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters."
- Tom Metzger
(Related: Present, Wrong)
"It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed."
- Nelson A. Miles
(Related: Party, Wrong)
"My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold."
- Ed Miliband
(Related: People, Values, Beliefs, Right, Sense, Will, Wrong)
"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain."
- John Stuart Mill
(Related: Happiness, Absence, Actions, Pain, Pleasure, Right, Wrong)
"In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny."
- John Stuart Mill
(Related: Wrong)
"The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
- Agnes de Mille
(Related: Artist, May, Wrong)
"There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it."
- Dennis Miller
(Related: Being, Nothing, Wrong)
"My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong."
- Frank Miller
(Related: Feeling, Now, Wrong)
"When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life."
- Jack Miller
(Related: Education, Life, Quality, Ability, Desire, Economy, School, Schools, Wrong)
"I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy."
- Kelly Miller
(Related: Truth, Progress, Cruelty, Error, Injustice, Mercy, Right, Wrong)
"Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night."
- Wentworth Miller
(Related: Car, Time, Driving, Night, Wrong)
"For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure."
- Zell Miller
(Related: Freedom, Security, Wrong, Years)
"My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places."
- A. A. Milne
(Related: Letters, Spelling, Wrong)
"The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong."
- Addison Mizner
(Related: People, Wrong)
"Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal."
- Mark Mobius
(Related: Activism, Company, Privilege, Responsibility, Right, Wrong)
"It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right."
- Moliere
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself."
- Brian Molko
(Related: Being, Flattery, Imitation, Individuality, Wrong)
"I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong."
- John Monash
(Related: Care, Right, Service, Want, Wrong)
"I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two!"
- Eddie Money
(Related: Nothing, Wrong)
"It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be."
- Rick Moody
(Related: People, Memory, Wrong)
"The wrong way always seems the more reasonable."
- George A. Moore
(Related: Wrong)
"An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his."
- Daniel Morgan
(Related: War, Man, Nothing, Property, Right, Wrong)
"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable."
- Robert Morgan
(Related: Poetry, Problems, Wrong)
"There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Government, Nothing, Wrong)
"Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error."
- Ferdinand Mount
(Related: People, Error, Politicians, Wrong)
"Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it."
- Nana Mouskouri
(Related: Politicians, World, Wrong)
"I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it."
- Tia Mowry
(Related: Needs, Nothing, Wrong)
"I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available."
- Edvard Munch
(Related: Completion, Wrong)
"I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not."
- Dennis Muren
(Related: Direction, Wrong)
"The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time."
- Bill Murray
(Related: Money, Time, Writing, Wrong)
"I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book."
- George Murray
(Related: Wrong)
"There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates."
- Pervez Musharraf
(Related: Thought, Freedom, Nothing, Wrong)
"Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong."
- Alva Myrdal
(Related: War, Peace, Friend, Destruction, Wrong)
"Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong."
- Fridtjof Nansen
(Related: Wrong)
"To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up."
- Ogden Nash
(Related: Love, Marriage, Right, Wrong)
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."
- Ogden Nash
(Related: Wrong)
"Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."
- Ogden Nash
(Related: Wrong)
"I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons."
- Ogden Nash
(Related: News, Right, Wrong)
"If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting."
- Bruce Nauman
(Related: Questions, Result, Wrong)
"Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?"
- Holly Near
(Related: People, Killing, Wrong)
"In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly."
- Liam Neeson
(Related: Bed, Mind, Night, Play, Reading, Wrong, Years)
"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy."
- Horatio Nelson
(Related: Enemy, Wrong)
"You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong."
- Knute Nelson
(Related: Arrogance, Forget, Wrong)
"You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them."
- Knute Nelson
(Related: God, Hope, Arrogance, Forget, Mind, Order, Will, Wrong)
"I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?"
- Willie Nelson
(Related: Government, God, People, Fact, Right, Wrong)
"I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character."
- Corin Nemec
(Related: Life, Character, Ethics, Morals, Personality, Right, Wrong)
"Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them."
- Michael Nesmith
(Related: Cliches, Nothing, Trade, Wrong)
"First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever."
- Benjamin Netanyahu
(Related: People, First, Israel, State, Will, Wrong)
"If I can't affect some change in six years, maybe I'm in the wrong place."
- George Nethercutt
(Related: Change, Wrong, Years)
"If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections."
- Bebe Neuwirth
(Related: Class, Electricity, Wrong)
"I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know."
- Lennart Nilsson
(Related: Medical, Thought, Information, Reason, Wrong)
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
- Anais Nin
(Related: Man, Woman, World, Wrong)
"When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club."
- Ruud van Nistelrooy
(Related: Work, Decisions, Defeat, Help, Losing, United, Want, Will, Wrong)
"I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate."
- Richard M. Nixon
(Related: Acting, Now, Wrong)
"The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important."
- Albert J. Nock
(Related: Thought, Question, Right, Worth, Wrong)
"Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist."
- Kenneth Noland
(Related: Artist, Being, Wrong)
"I'm really into Sweet 75 right now, and I dig playing Nirvana, don't get me wrong. Even if Kurt never died, more than likely I'd be in Sweet 75 today still."
- Krist Novoselic
(Related: Now, Right, Today, Wrong)
"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."
- Trevor Nunn
(Related: Decision, Criticism, Dictatorship, Listening, Saying, Wrong)
"I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong."
- John Oates
(Related: Wrong)
"The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Friendship, Peace, Failure, Israel, World, Wrong)
"We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday."
- Michelle Obama
(Related: Nothing, Now, Wrong)
"It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win."
- Phil Ochs
(Related: Act, Reward, Struggle, Wrong)
"There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong."
- Daniel O'Connell
(Related: Nothing, Right, Wrong)
"Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong."
- Daniel O'Connell
(Related: Nothing, Right, Wrong)
"Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me."
- Daniel Okrent
(Related: People, Being, End, Job, Now, Worry, Wrong)
"The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong."
- Marvin Olasky
(Related: Religious, Wrong)
"Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice."
- Gary Oldman
(Related: Family, Courage, Values, Compassion, Justice, Right, Sense, Wrong)
"I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student."
- Pat Oliphant
(Related: Learning, Wrong)
"If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree."
- Susan Olsen
(Related: Actor, Being, Wrong)
"Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous."
- Michael Ondaatje
(Related: Time, Truth, Wrong)
"We're just going to come out and play. We know that we're supposed to win all the games, but if we don't, we just have to take the next game and focus on what we did wrong in the game before and just try to do better at the next game."
- Shaquille O'Neal
(Related: Focus, Games, Play, Wrong)
"I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong."
- Eugene Ormandy
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong."
- Eugene Ormandy
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better."
- Julia Ormond
(Related: Being, Wrong)
"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."
- P. J. O'Rourke
(Related: Politics, God, Foreigners, Rights, Infinite, Mercy, Wrongs)
"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them."
- George Orwell
(Related: Ideas, Wrong)
"A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase."
- George Orwell
(Related: Family, Control, England, Wrong)
"People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster."
- Adam Osborne
(Related: Computers, People, Mistakes, Will, Wrong)
"I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong."
- John Osborne
(Related: People, Wrong)
"Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change."
- Joel Osteen
(Related: Change, People, Church, Want, Wrong)
"I think God's justice is making wrongs right."
- Joel Osteen
(Related: God, Justice, Right, Wrongs)
"Yogi seemed to be doing everything wrong, yet everything came out right."
- Mel Ott
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"Often they benefit who suffer wrong."
- Ovid
(Related: Wrong)
"It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage."
- Robert Dale Owen
(Related: Men, Wrong)
"If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?"
- Robert Dale Owen
(Related: Measure, Responsibility, Wonder, Wrong)
"Right is right and wrong is wrong."
- Terrell Owens
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being."
- David Packard
(Related: Money, People, Being, Cause, Company, Existence, Reason, Result)
"People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all."
- Joy Page
(Related: People, Growth, Desire, Evil, Learning, Light, Right, Ugly, Wrong)
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
- Thomas Paine
(Related: Habit, Appearance, Being, Right, Thinking, Wrong)
"People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Government, People, America, Nothing, Old, Wrong)
"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether."
- Jim Palmer
(Related: Cure, Wrong)
"I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving."
- Sylvia Pankhurst
(Related: People, Capitalism, Fight, Wrong)
"Something goes wrong, I yell at them -"Fix it"- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust."
- Bill Parcells
(Related: Trust, Fault, Wrong)
"If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong."
- Sarah Jessica Parker
(Related: Thought, People, Wrong)
"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."
- Blaise Pascal
(Related: Fact, Nothing, Wrong)
"If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards."
- Joe Pass
(Related: Play, Right, Wrong)
"What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?"
- John Dos Passos
(Related: Being, Man, Wrong)
"It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems."
- Chris Patten
(Related: Time, Problems, Wrong)
"The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong."
- Dick Van Patten
(Related: Animals, Friends, Loyalty, Wrong)
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
- George S. Patton
(Related: Men, God, Wrong)
"There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly."
- Ron Paul
(Related: War, Policy, Being, Conservative, Defense, Foreign policy, Nothing, Wrong)
"There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained."
- Ron Paul
(Related: Government, Conservatism, Constitution, Enemy, Liberty, Nothing, Wrong)
"When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away."
- Anna Pavlova
(Related: Happiness, Success, Thought, Wrong)
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
(Related: Life, Fear, Being, Wrong)
"The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up."
- Minnie Pearl
(Related: Time, Husband, Kisses, Wrong)
"Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs."
- Robert Peel
(Related: Feeling, Folly, Obstinacy, Opinion, Prejudice, Public, Public opinion, Right, Weakness, Wrong)
"If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment."
- Dave Pelzer
(Related: People, Negative, Cause, Desire, Environment, Right, Understanding, Wrong)
"It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role."
- Elizabeth Pena
(Related: Business, People, Names, Open, Right, Wrong)
"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."
- William Penn
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"One has the right to be wrong in a democracy."
- Claude Pepper
(Related: Democracy, Right, Wrong)
"The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more."
- Charles Perrault
(Related: Thought, Brothers, Poor, Wrong)
"Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path."
- Anne Perry
(Related: Time, Disappointments, Will, Worry, Wrong)
"Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing."
- Matthew Perry
(Related: Women, Will, Wrong)
"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: Right, Wrongs)
"Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong."
- David Hyde Pierce
(Related: Wrong)
"Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within."
- Brad Pitt
(Related: Success, Wrong)
"I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong."
- Dana Plato
(Related: Energy, Wrong)
"When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure."
- Plato
(Related: May)
"Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong."
- John Podesta
(Related: People, Care, Right, Security, Wrong)
"In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent."
- Roman Polanski
(Related: Car, Being, Fact, Paris, Wrong)
"The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society."
- Michael Pollan
(Related: Power, Society, Blame, Media, Television, Wrong)
"On wrongs swift vengeance waits."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Vengeance, Wrongs)
"No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Saying, Today, Words, Wrong, Yesterday)
"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Faith, Life, Fight, Right, Wrong)
"They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own."
- Antonio Porchia
(Related: Road, Will, Wrong)
"Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong."
- Gail Porter
(Related: Love, Wrong)
"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."
- Ezra Pound
(Related: Wrong)
"The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise."
- Colin Powell
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong."
- Terry Prachett
(Related: Opera, Wrong)
"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."
- Terry Prachett
(Related: Time, Nothing, Wrong, Years)
"Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care."
- Terry Prachett
(Related: Care, Universe, Wrong)
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
- Terry Pratchett
(Related: Darkness, First, Light, Waiting, Wrong)
"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong."
- Terry Pratchett
(Related: Exercise, Fantasy, Mind, Wrong)
"I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Training, Wrong)
"I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise."
- Lisa Marie Presley
(Related: Food, Exercise, Wrong, Yoga)
"There is nothing wrong with the name White Settlement, and the majority here is proud of the name."
- Alan Price
(Related: Majority, Name, Nothing, Wrong)
"A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow."
- J. B. Priestley
(Related: Books, Nothing, Reputation, Wrong, Years)
"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."
- J. B. Priestley
(Related: Death, Despair, Will, Wrong)
"We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents."
- Paul Prudhomme
(Related: Parents, Want, Wrong)
"Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them."
- Paul Prudhomme
(Related: Apples, Fancy, Study, Wrong)
"I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary."
- Richard Pryor
(Related: Wrong)
"We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever."
- Philip Pullman
(Related: Time, Books, Rights, Silence, Wrongs)
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."
- Thomas Pynchon
(Related: Answers, Questions, Worry, Wrong)
"I want our leaders to lead our country to greatness, but President Obama and his misguided policies and ideology have really fundamentally changed our country in the wrong way, more so than any president in our history."
- Ben Quayle
(Related: History, Greatness, Country, Ideology, Leaders, President, Want, Wrong)
"Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others."
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
(Related: Act, Actions, Americans, Wrong)
"Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good."
- Ted Rall
(Related: Wrong)
"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil."
- Ayn Rand
(Related: Evil, Right, Wrong)
"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong."
- Ayn Rand
(Related: Contradiction, Will, Wrong)
"The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong."
- William Randolph
(Related: Right, World, Wrong)
"Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case."
- John Rawls
(Related: Life, Feelings, Animals, Compassion, Destruction, Evil, Humanity, Pain, Pleasure, Wrong)
"No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong."
- Maureen Reagan
(Related: Actor, Wrong)
"They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong."
- Ronald Reagan
(Related: Answers, World, Wrong)
"Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong."
- Ronald Reagan
(Related: America, Today, Wrong)
"After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober."
- Martha Reeves
(Related: Life, Decisions, Right, Wrong, Years)
"There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more."
- Harry Reid
(Related: American, Americans, Retirement, Security, Wrong)
"Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life."
- Rob Reiner
(Related: Life, Love, People, Violence, Wrong)
"I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place."
- Jeremy Renner
(Related: Thoughts, Cinema, Wrong)
"I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?"
- Ryan Reynolds
(Related: Family, Energy, Hell, Wrong)
"It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong."
- Donna Rice
(Related: Money, Job, Living, Want, Wrong)
"I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other."
- Little Richard
(Related: Love, Wrong)
"I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong."
- Ann Richards
(Related: Dad, College, Feeling, Wrong)
"If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection."
- Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
(Related: Burden, Clothes, Comfort, Night, Protection, Wrong)
"The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What's wrong with this picture?"
- Jef I. Richards
(Related: Lie, Law, Wrong)
"You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so!"
- Jerome Richardson
(Related: Play, Wrong)
"I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible."
- Manfred von Richthofen
(Related: Work, Learning, Opinion, Wrong)
"Don't get me wrong, some of the mis-informed articles I have read over the last few weeks have been incredibly frustrating, but for my part I fully appreciate the opportunity I have been given and want to grasp it firmly."
- Adam Rickitt
(Related: Opportunity, Want, Wrong)
"So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do."
- Sally Ride
(Related: First, Wrong)
"The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency."
- Sally Ride
(Related: Loss, Pressure, Wrong)
"After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong."
- Sally Ride
(Related: Time, Accident, Safety, Space, Wrong)
"He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable."
- Robert Ripley
(Related: Thought, Trying, Wrong)
"It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia."
- Tim Robbins
(Related: Fathers, Wrong)
"Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust."
- Tim Robbins
(Related: Laws, Wrong)
"I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong."
- Cokie Roberts
(Related: Wrong)
"Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?"
- John Robinson
(Related: People, Fear, Kids, Media, School, Wrong)
"If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press."
- Mo Rocca
(Related: Hate, Press, Right, Wrong)
"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Men, Wrong)
"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy."
- John D. Rockefeller
(Related: Men, Wealth, Wrong)
"What's wrong with sweetness and light? It's been around quite awhile."
- Richard Rodgers
(Related: Light, Sweetness, Wrong)
"They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women."
- Nicolas Roeg
(Related: Women, Mistake, Now, Wrong)
"When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public."
- James E. Rogers
(Related: Doubt, Public, Wrong)
"I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be."
- Wayne Rogers
(Related: Actors, Wrong)
"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around."
- Jim Rohn
(Related: Education, Motivation, Needs, Road, Wrong)
"Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth."
- Dana Rohrabacher
(Related: Truth, Actions, Consequences, Wrong)
"Our State Department is often wrong and timid."
- Dana Rohrabacher
(Related: State, Wrong)
"The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong."
- Andy Rooney
(Related: Chance, Right, Wrong)
"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."
- Theodore Roosevelt
(Related: Country, Humanity)
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
- Theodore Roosevelt
(Related: Decision, Nothing, Right, Wrong)
"It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war."
- Elihu Root
(Related: War, Peace, People, Enthusiasm, Resentment, Wrongs)
"In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought."
- Elihu Root
(Related: Policy, Aggression, Country, Desire, First, Possession, Right, Trade, Wrong)
"The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything."
- Elihu Root
(Related: Countries, Country, Extreme, Politicians, Popular, Popularity, Right, Wrong)
"Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man."
- Ernestine Rose
(Related: Women, Virtue, Blind, Man, Wrong)
"Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money."
- Hilary Rosen
(Related: Money, Music, Losing, Wrong)
"Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind."
- Julius Rosenwald
(Related: Business, Career, Folly, Mind, Wrong)
"This is my sixth series, and I'm burned out wondering if a show is going to change my life. Don't get me wrong, I love when people recognize my work. But I've given up worrying about whether it'll be seen by two people or two million or 22 million."
- Charlotte Ross
(Related: Change, Love, Life, Work, People, Wrong)
"If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it."
- Leo Rosten
(Related: Wrong)
"I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong."
- Mickey Rourke
(Related: Ability, Wrong, Years)
"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Arguments, Insults, Wrong)
"Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either."
- Brandon Routh
(Related: Audiences, Job, Wrong)
"In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place."
- Helen Rowland
(Related: Love, Heart, Man, Wrong)
"I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us."
- Pete Rozelle
(Related: Time, Job, Press, Public, Saying, Wrong)
"Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation."
- Charles Ruff
(Related: Cause, Danger, Grave, Nation, Office, Wrongs)
"Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House."
- Donald Rumsfeld
(Related: People, Performance, Country, Errors, Guidance, Help, Wrong)
"One of your tasks is to separate the "personal" from the "substantive." The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong."
- Donald Rumsfeld
(Related: President, Wrong)
"This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more."
- Geoffrey Rush
(Related: Children, Now, Parents, Wrong)
"I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do."
- Geoffrey Rush
(Related: Business, Thought, Anxiety, Pretty, Stress, Thinking, Wrong)
"Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet."
- Joanna Russ
(Related: Faith, Ideas, Right, Wrong)
"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Question, Singing, Wrong)
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Beliefs, Wrong)
"The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing."
- David O. Russell
(Related: People, Character, Now, Wrong)
"We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate."
- George William Russell
(Related: Defeat, Fight, Hate, May, Spiritual, Wrong)
"A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing."
- Richard Russo
(Related: Books, Delight, Self, Wrong)
"That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about."
- Winona Ryder
(Related: Business, People, Want, Wrong)
"The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind."
- Marquis de Sade
(Related: God, Idea, Mankind, Wrong)
"I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs."
- Morley Safer
(Related: Business, Right, Wrongs)
"The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it."
- Bob Saget
(Related: Nature, Comedy, Saying, Wrong)
"No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right."
- Sallust
(Related: Man, Right, Wrongs)
"If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage."
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
(Related: Experience, Idea, Performance, Today, Wrong)
"I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong."
- R. A. Salvatore
(Related: Trying, Wrong)
"Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time."
- Carl Sandburg
(Related: Time, Arithmetic, Right, Sky, Wrong)
"I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct."
- Carl Sandburg
(Related: Class, Ethics, Morals, Right, Saying, Wrong)
"All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."
- George Santayana
(Related: Living, Wrong)
"The decision he made with Usama bin Laden was a tactical decision. It wasn't a strategic decision. The strategic decision was made by President Bush to go after him. What President Obama has done on his watch, the issues that have come up while he's been president, he's gotten it wrong strategically every single time."
- Rick Santorum
(Related: Time, Decision, President, Wrong)
"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth."
- John Singer Sargent
(Related: Painting, Wrong)
"Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
(Related: Politics, Science, Right, Wrong)
"Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Difference, Gain, Principles, Right, Wrong)
"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way."
- George Savile
(Related: Hope, Company, Wrong)
"For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that."
- Devon Sawa
(Related: Film, Moments, Right, Wrong)
"People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong."
- Diane Sawyer
(Related: People, Television, Wrong)
"My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem."
- John Sayles
(Related: Argument, Democracy, Film, Wrong)
"Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience."
- Hjalmar Schacht
(Related: Peace, People, Conscience, Labor, Loss, Wrong)
"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(Related: Life, Cowardice, Man, Nothing, Obvious, Suicide, World, Wrong)
"As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong."
- Liev Schreiber
(Related: Wrong)
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"
- Charles M. Schulz
(Related: Lie, Night, Voice, Wrong)
"If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now."
- Charles Schumer
(Related: Power, Time, Truth, Hope, Now, Right, Will, Wrong)
"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right."
- Carl Schurz
(Related: Country, Right, Wrong)
"My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right."
- Carl Schurz
(Related: Country, Right, Wrong)
"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things."
- Morrie Schwartz
(Related: Life, People, Wrong)
"We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles."
- Bill Scott
(Related: Legal, Now, Right, Wrong)
"It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong."
- Bill Scott
(Related: People, Favorite, Help, Trying, Wrong)
"I think it is wrong to spend $4 or $5 million in a campaign."
- Bill Scott
(Related: Wrong)
"Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle."
- Lee Scott
(Related: Error, Harm, Wrong)
"Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong."
- William Scranton
(Related: Day, First, Giving, Press, Wrong)
"Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans."
- Charles de Secondat
(Related: Wrong)
"It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that."
- Kyra Sedgwick
(Related: Wrong)
"It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue."
- Jay Alan Sekulow
(Related: Men, Constitution, Wrong)
"They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black."
- John Selden
(Related: Colors, Superstition, Wrong)
"She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day."
- David O. Selznick
(Related: Day, Wrong)
"Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids."
- Jim Sensenbrenner
(Related: Sports, Americans, Athletes, Example, Succeed)
"After the last two years of springtime gas price spikes, nearly everyone in Southeast Wisconsin understands that something is wrong with our gasoline regulation and supply system."
- Jim Sensenbrenner
(Related: Wrong, Years)
"The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise."
- Jose Serrano
(Related: Government, Medical, People, Financial, Compromise, Information, Wrong)
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
- Dr. Seuss
(Related: Life, End, Fantasy, Living, Nonsense, Wrong)
"Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain."
- Anna Seward
(Related: Soul, Blessings, Fate, Wrongs)
"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt."
- Anna Sewell
(Related: Power, Cruelty, Doctrine, Guilt, Nothing, Wrong)
"Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up."
- Amanda Seyfried
(Related: Thought, Growing up, Intimacy, Sexuality, Wrong)
"Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself."
- Charles Seymour
"Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right."
- Peter Shaffer
(Related: Conflict, Right, Tragedy, Wrong)
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Love, Trust, Wrong)
"To do a great right do a little wrong."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Right, Wrong)
"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Children, Eyes, Fathers, Judgment, May, Wrong)
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Poison, Revenge, Wrong)
"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Dreams, Reality, Wrong)
"I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Crime, Months)
"If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!"
- William Shatner
(Related: Money, Want, Wrong)
"It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct."
- Anna Howard Shaw
(Related: Belief, Wrong)
"The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Majority, Minority, Right, Wrong)
"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Nothing, World, Wrong)
"I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now."
- Robert Sheckley
(Related: Idea, Now, Wrong)
"These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam."
- Neil Sheehan
(Related: Men, Fighting, Man, Veterans, Vietnam)
"The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong."
- Neil Sheehan
(Related: Policy, Destruction, Killing, Wrong)
"That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
- Charlie Sheen
(Related: American, President, Public, Right, Wrong)
"War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Time, War, Wrong)
"Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results."
- Hugh Shelton
(Related: War, Cause, Nations, Results, Terrorism, Wrong)
"They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know."
- Hugh Shelton
(Related: Direction, Wrong)
"And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right."
- Alan Shepard
(Related: Business, Time, Development, Planning, Research, Right, Training, Wrong)
"Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side."
- Sam Shepard
(Related: Fear, Being, Breeding, Now, Obvious, Wrong)