Quotes about wrong
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“Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“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.”

Michael Crichton book The Lost World

Source: The Lost World

Life, People, Time

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

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Gale and Katniss (p. 197)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: "I don't stand a chance if he doesn't get better. You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me."
"The way I always felt wrong kissing him because of you," I say.

Feeling

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

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Betrayals

Way

“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.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

People, Thinking, Heart, Heartbreaking

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

George Gordon Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 5.

Fools

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

Guy Gavriel Kay book Tigana

Part 3 “Ember to Ember”, Chapter 10 (p. 317)
Source: Tigana (1990)

“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.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

People, World, Search

“We made too many wrong mistakes.”

Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0743244532, p. 75
On why the Yankees lost the 1960 series to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Yogiisms

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

Robin McKinley (1952) American fantasy writer

Source: The Hero and The Crown

“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.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

Effort, Time

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

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

Source: Every Fifteen Minutes

Moms, Time

“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.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“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.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

Love, Books, Guy

“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.”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Way

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

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: P.S. I Love You

Soul, Housing

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

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

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

Hilary McKay book Saffy's Angel

Source: Saffy's Angel

Understanding

“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.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Source: Collected Poems

Reading, Heart

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

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

“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.”

Robert Greene book Mastery

Source: Mastery

Failure, Forgetting

“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.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Variant: I hated high 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 wrong with you.

Hate, School

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

Nicholas Sparks book The Guardian

Source: The Guardian

People

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

David Almond book My Name Is Mina

Source: My Name Is Mina

Love, Children

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

Tom Stoppard Arcadia

Source: Arcadia

Time

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

Rebecca Stead book When You Reach Me

Source: When You Reach Me

Feeling

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

Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary

Thinking

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

Terry Goodkind book Naked Empire

Source: Naked Empire

“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.”

Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) English satirical novelist

Source: Wilt On High

Faith, Democracy, Intelligence, Sense

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

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Way

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

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Help

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

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

Books

“He who despairs is wrong.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Source: Les Misérables, tome I/3

Despair

“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.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Universe, Personality

“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.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: The Art of Travel

Travel, Chance, Time

“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.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love

“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)”

Charlaine Harris book From Dead to Worse

Source: From Dead to Worse

Way, Feeling, Selfishness

“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.”

Victor Hugo book The Last Day of a Condemned Man

Source: The Last Day of a Condemned Man

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.”

Howard Thurman (1899–1981) American writer

Question

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

Philip K. Dick book VALIS

Source: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 21 (p. 171)
Source: VALIS
Context: "Fear,” Jason said, “can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back.”'

Hate, Fear, Jealousy

“… 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.”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

Truth, Lie

“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.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Source: A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Money

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

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story

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

Sarah Dessen book That Summer

Source: That Summer

People, Way

“Two wrongs don't make a right.

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

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

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

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Kings of Clonmel

“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.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Source: Christianity and Culture: The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture

Sense

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

Jim Butcher book White Night

Source: White Night

Way

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Feeling

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

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Love

“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!”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 9.
Context: 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! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

Love, Sense, Universe

“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.”

Kinky Friedman (1944) Singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician

Time

“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.”

Flann O'Brien book At Swim-Two-Birds

Source: At Swim-Two-Birds

Life, Night

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

Franz Kafka book The Trial

First lines, Ch. 1
Variant translation: Somebody must have slandered Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.
Source: The Trial (1920)
Context: Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. His landlady's cook, who always brought him his breakfast at eight o'clock, failed to appear on this occasion. That had never happened before.

“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 (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Fear, Heart

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

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: One

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

Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist

“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.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

about 1900, page 429
John of the Mountains, 1938

People, Tree, Light, Heart

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

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Training

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

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Evil

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

Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, early leader in the civil rights mo…

Truth, Way, Light

“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.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

Error, Universe

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

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Feeling

“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.”

Xaviera Hollander (1943) Dutch prostitute

Sex, Suffering

“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 (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Life

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

Idries Shah book Reflections

Source: Reflections

People, History, Time, Success

“… 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.”

Terri Blackstock (1957) American writer

Source: Last Light

Life, God, Decision, Time

“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.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Anita's musings on knives; unidentified edition, pp. 304-305
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Narcissus In Chains (2001)
Context: I stepped out of the car on the rat king's arm, like a trophy wife--except for the wrist sheaths and the two folding knives hidden in my clothing. Somehow I think trophy wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But, Hey, I haven't 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. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six. Funny how phallic objects are always more useful the bigger they are. Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

Way, Thinking, Heart

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Sun

“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.”

Orson Scott Card book Xenocide

Source: Xenocide

Children, Parent

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

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

"Have You Learned The Most Important Lesson Of All?" http://www.thehypertexts.com/Essays%20Articles%20Reviews%20Prose/Elie_Wiesel_Essay_Have_You_Learned_The_Most_Important_Lesson_Of_All.htm, published in Parade Magazine (24 May 1992)

Faith