“Max Bialystock: How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?”
The Producers
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Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
Answering audience questions after a reading of The God Delusion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mmskXXetcg,Randolph-Macon Woman's College,<br>Posed question: "This is probably going to be the most simplest one for you to answer, but: What if you're wrong?"
“I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.”
Candace Bushnell book Sex and the City
Source: Sex and the City
“I…regret…what I did. It was wrong. Very wrong. But regret is meaningless.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Broken Kingdoms
Source: The Broken Kingdoms (2011), Chapter 16 “From the Depths to the Heights” (watercolor) (p. 283)
“There is right and there is wrong, I have NEVER been wrong.”
John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
Source: Pink Flamingos and Other Filth: Three Screenplays
“Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
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“I see the right, and I approve it too,
Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.”
Samuel Garth (1661–1719) British writer
Translation of Ovid, Metamorphoses, vii. 20 (translated by Tate and Stonestreet, edited by Garth), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue" [veggio ’l meglio, et al peggior m’appiglio], Petrarch, Sonnet ccxxv. canzone xxi. To Laura in Life.
“By doing one wrong thing, I thought I could make everything right.”
Scott B. Smith book A Simple Plan
Source: A Simple Plan
“How come I end up where I started?
How come I end up where I went wrong?”
Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
15 Step
Lyrics, In Rainbows (2007)