Quotes about wrong

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“All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.”

“You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.”

“And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.”

“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”

“I'll publish right or wrong:
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”

“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”

“Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect?
I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.”

“We made too many wrong mistakes.”

“He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.”

“The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.”

“Your typical suburban mom worries all the time, but she worries about the wrong things”

“My friends call me by my name."
"You don't have any friends."
"I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong.”

“Look, don’t get me wrong. I worship the ground this guy walks on. I’m excited to meet him tonight. I’m dying to meet him tonight. If he wanted to carry me off and make me his love slave, I’d do it, so long as I got advance copies of his books.”

“There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.”

“There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.”

“There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder
and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.”

“He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand.”

“Cruel of heart, lay down my song.
Your reading eyes have done me wrong.
Not for you was the pen bitten,
And the mind wrung, and the song written.”

“Aretmis gripped her bow. “Let us pray I am wrong.”
Can goddesses pray?”

“If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.”

“I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”

“You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.”

“And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!”

“It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.”

“I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.”

“Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.”

“Right and wrong are not the product of census.”

“Do go on,' he said. 'There's nothing I enjoy more than listening to a highly trained intelligence leapfrogging common sense and coming to the wrong conclusions. It gives me renewed faith in parliamentary democracy.”

“When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.”

“Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.”

“You need me as much as I need you. That makes us equal partners in my book.
Well, your book is just wrong.”

“He who despairs is wrong.”

“I chuckled to myself and kept walking. The Universe had proven Curran wrong: a person who aggravated him more than me did, in fact, exist.”

“A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.”

“I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.”

“I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that’s wrong of me, so be it. I’ll be wrong. But that’s the way I feel.” (Sookie Stackhouse)”

“But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.”

“There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The 1st is " Where am I going?" and the 2nd is "Who will go with me?"
If you ever get these questions in the wrong order, you are in trouble.”

“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy… fear makes you always, always hold something back.”

“… when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.”

“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.”

“I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.”

“Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.”

“Two wrongs don't make a right.

No, but three will get you back on the freeway!”

“An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong.”

“But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.”

“But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.”

“I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.”

“If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.”

“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!”

“If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.”

“When things go wrong and will not come right,
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the hour of night,
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.”

“Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.”

“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”

“Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.”

“Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction”

“The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.”

“If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.”

“Goor or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me.”

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”

“Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.”

“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”

“Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area.”

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”

“Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”

“… every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.”

“Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But hey, I haven't ever met a Trophy Wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs.”

“How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing
at the radiance of the sun."
Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.”

“Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.”

“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.”

“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”

“Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.”

“What went wrong? Nothing and everything.”

“Is there something wrong?” he asked.
She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze blowing off the lake. “You could hold me now.”
It was almost his undoing.
“Ah baby.”

“So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.”

“Has it ever occurred to you that you might be delusional?'

That's what the psychiatrist said, but I think he's wrong. There's an evil flying pizza out there, and it's got Brenda's name on it.”

“Nick cleared his throat. “Do not  … and I mean do  … not  … take this the wrong way, okay?” He wrapped his arms around Ash and hugged him. “I will always be your brother,” he whispered in Ash’s ear. “And I won’t ever hate you.”

“Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.”

“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”

“Sacred Sibyl!” I cried. “Madam, there is something wrong with your midsection!”

The woman stopped, mystified, and looked down at her hugely swollen belly. “Well, I’m seven months pregnant.”

“Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.”

“There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.”

“The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.”

“The tricky thing about mazes is that you don't know if you've chosen the right path until the very end. If it turns out you were wrong, it's usually too late to go back and start again. That's the problem with mazes.”

“A bruise is how the body remembers it’s been wronged.”

“Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day.

Some scars never heal.
Then again, some do.”

“If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong”

“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.”

“I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.”

“[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care… They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.”

“People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.”

“… everyone was right about you- prove them wrong.”

“… You seem upset, Charlie. Is something wrong?
Charlie: No, no, I’m okay, I just had to take directions from a mute beaver in a fez to get here, it’s unsettling.”

“And I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn’t matter who was right and who was wrong. At some point, being
angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning
yourself without thinking about it.”

“That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.”

“No, no. I trust your judgement. Implicitly. You're just wrong.”

“So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.”

“That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.”

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”