A Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nathaniel Hawthorne
American - Novelist
July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864

I try to do something good, but when it doesn't go good, then I go like too much into myself, what I'm doing right, wrong, instead of thinking more what I have to do with the ball.

Dinara Safina

We always know, we always know, which is the right way to go, and which is the wrong way to go. Sometimes, the wrong way is easier to go, or more satisfying, and so we choose that way instead of the right one and we justify it with complicated wordplay and such; but we are only kidding ourselves.

Milton William Cooper

To any honest observer, Zimbabwe's sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue--to return its land to its people.

Cynthia McKinney

To me, the fundamental thing - well, I guess I see a lot of people debating in the wrong way. A lot of the debate is, should we go to the coasts, should we go to the center, should we go to the left, should we go to the right?

Mark Shields

I'm not a guy who can go in and go, "Hey, are we doing right or wrong?" I just do it. And whatever it is, it is.

Eric Church

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Mae West

Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement.

George Carlin

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

Thomas Huxley

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

Charles Dickens

Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It would be wrong to plan too much ahead of a match. You've got to go with the flow, go with your instincts.

Michael Clarke

There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.

Abby Sunderland

Martin O'Neill let me go and he obviously felt that was the right thing at the time. But you go on and want to prove people wrong.

Gary Cahill

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

The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

Carl Schurz

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