Quotes about wrong page 11
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Source: Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2009, Farewell speech to the nation (January 2009)
Context: As we address these challenges – and others we cannot foresee tonight – America must maintain our moral clarity. I have often spoken to you about good and evil. This has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise. Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere. Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right. This nation must continue to speak out for justice and truth. We must always be willing to act in their defense and to advance the cause of peace.
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Matrim Cauthon
(15 October 1994)
Source: The Wheel of time series by Robert Jordan
“It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.”
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
“There are no wrong roads to anywhere.”
Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
Ford Madox Ford book The Good Soldier
Part Four, Ch. V (pp. 237-238)
Source: The Good Soldier (1915)
Context: It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me.
Is there any terrestrial paradise where, amidst the whispering of the olive-leaves, people can be with whom they like and have what they like and take their ease in shadows and in coolness? Or are all men's lives like the lives of us good people — like the lives of the Ashburnhams, of the Dowells, of the Ruffords — broken, tumultuous, agonized, and unromantic lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by deaths, by agonies? Who the devil knows?
“Without me, without me,
Everyday's misery.
But with me - am I wrong?
No night is too long!”
Ruth Rendell (1930–2015) British writer
Source: No Night is Too Long
“I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
“What is wrong with you?
Many, many things.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Slays
“You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.”
Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist
Source: UnWholly
“Bad days, good days, ‘I’ll cut you if you look at me the wrong way’ days. I’ll take them all.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Gunmetal Magic
“What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: Saving Raphael Santiago
“A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.”
Raymond Chandler book Pearls are a Nuisance
Source: Pearls are a Nuisance
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.”
Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist
Source: Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Emily Giffin Something Borrowed
Source: Something Borrowed
Richard Dawkins book The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
“We had a good run, and now it’s over; what’s wrong with that?”
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Guys don't let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay that came out wrong.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
Matthew Scully (1959) American political writer and speechwriter
Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
“On way. He OK? Aeron
Coming. Something wrong? Lucian
Take me out of your address book. William”
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Secret
“I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here."
"Is there something wrong with that?"
"Absolutely.”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Anne Bishop book Murder of Crows
Source: Murder of Crows
“Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.”
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
“if something does go wrong, here is my advice… KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.”
Maira Kalman (1949) Israeli American artist and creator of children's books
Source: The Principles of Uncertainty
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Blue-Eyed Devil
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.”
Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer
Source: Dilbert's Guide to the Rest of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubicleland
Paul Arden (1940–2008) writer
Source: Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite
Andrei Tarkovsky book Sculpting in Time
On being told that his film Stalker should be faster and more dynamic by officials at Goskino.
Sculpting in Time (1989)
“Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)”
Don DeLillo (1936) American novelist, playwright and essayist
“If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong.”
Dan Brown book Angels & Demons
Variant: If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!
Source: Angels & Demons
“I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.”
Candace Bushnell book Sex and the City
Source: Sex and the City
“I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.”
George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist
Source: Then Comes Seduction