Top 1200 Always Wrong Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

It's always difficult to tell someone when they're still in love with someone that I think they're going in the wrong way.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

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.

Time is a slippery concept, and we are often wrong about it... All too often we find ourselves looking in the right places at the wrong times.

Mike Cernovich is not everything that's wrong with society, but he is definitely the low hanging fruit of what's wrong with society.

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might.

In my mind, there's nothing wrong with it. I don't instinctively know what's wrong with it. There is a language of the ghetto. There is a language of the barrio. And it's not good. There is an attitude. There is a behavior. There is a mindset and we wouldn't anybody to be stuck in it.

There's something wrong with the Labour party. There's something wrong with the fact that women never rise to the top.

Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.

In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name

If we keep asking the wrong questions, we are just going to get better wrong answers. The solution to lack of community isn't to give up on the community.

Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing.

The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

There has always been an inner self-motivation for me. Mine goes back to my United days of us against the world and proving everyone wrong.

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status, simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue put in one's mouth by others.

I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down.

A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.

It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar.

There is nothing wrong with being afraid - but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master.

There are always going to be reasons to do the wrong thing. And the smarter the person, the better the reasons. That doesn't make it right.

I believe in myself. There's nothing wrong with believing in myself. That's the whole idea, is that you can always become better.

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

I'm always someone who wants to strive to prove someone wrong or show something that maybe they haven't seen.

Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.

If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.

We always blame other people when things go wrong. For example, family to friends, you think they'll stay by your side, and you realise they never do. But that's life.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

The more we focus on what everyone else is doing wrong, the less energy we have to fix what we're doing wrong.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

I played the wrong wrong notes.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I think in those days we called them arguments - about who was right and who was wrong.

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

I probably marketed myself all wrong. I had exotic looks; I should have done those glamorous roles that exuded 'oomph.' But in my head, I was always an actress first.

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

The people that tell you what you enjoy is wrong, or come in your life and tell you what you're wearing is wrong are miserable because they focus on the things that they don't like.

It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.

When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.

I can be a better defender. It's one of those things where I like to always find something wrong so I can get better.

Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?

If you're going to be wrong, be dramatically wrong.

Yes, I will take a stand when someone is doing wrong. I will never side the one who is wrong.

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

I've always felt there was something wrong with Wells Fargo's culture, for a very, very long time.

The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart.